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Kremlin Falls for Its Own Fake Satellite Imagery

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Russian-Photoshopped footage of MH17 was accidentally picked up by Putin’s Defense Ministry to argue that one of its jets never entered Turkish airspace.

Ian Robertson
Ian Robertson
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