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The Dutch Safety Board  investigating the downing of Malaysian Airlines MH17 in Ukraine released its  Preliminary Report earlier today. The report states that the plane was hit by high velocity projectiles that struck the cockpit destroying the structural integrity of the plane and causing it to plummet to the ground.  There are no signs of any mechanical failure or pilot error. Page 25 figure 10 of the report  indicates that the projectiles that punctured the plane came from above the cockpit floor There is no damage to the bottom or the body of the plane's fuselage. Photographs not listed in the DSB board shows gauges to the top of the left wing that align up with the plane's cockpit Whilst the report avoided making any definitive accusations or statements to the cause of the planes demise they did not rule in or out the possibility of an air to air attack, Russian radar recorded at the time of the incident shows that there was at least one ...

(1) Protocol of the Trilateral Contact Group - Minsk, September 5, 2014 (Original)   (2) Link to OSCE Document Repository PROTOCOL on the results of consultations of the Trilateral Contact Group with respect to the joint steps aimed at the implementation of the Peace Plan of the President of Ukraine, P. Poroshenko, and the initiatives of the President of Russia, V. Putin Upon consideration and discussion of the proposals put forward by the participants of the consultations in Minsk on September 1, 2014, the Trilateral Contact Group, consisting of the representatives of Ukraine, the Russian Federation and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe [OSCE], reached an understanding with respect to the need to implement the following steps: Ensure the immediate bilateral cessation of the use of weapons. Ensure monitoring and verification by the OSCE of the regime of non-use of weapons. Implement decentralization of power, including by means of enacting ...

Source: The Washington Post By Erik Herron and Nazar Boyko September 6 at 4:48 PM A Ukrainian policeman stands in front of a voting booth as he secures the polling station in the village of Kosmach in the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast (province), western Ukraine May 24, 2014. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel As part of our continuing series of Monkey Cage Election Reports , the following is a pre-election report on Ukraine’s upcoming parliamentary election by political scientists  Erik Herron  of West Virginia University, and Nazar Boyko of CIFRA Group . ****** On Aug. 25, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko signed a decree dissolving parliament and calling early parliamentary elections for Oct. 26. Ukraine faces several critical issues to ensure that the next round of elections goes as smoothly as possible, notably administering elections in regions of instability and addressing the implications of changes in the partisan landscape. Ukraine’s last pa...

The US real aim is to wage war on Russia, to economically cripple Russia in the preparation of war with the goal of having Putin removed from office. Russia has always been concern about maintaining peace and has consistently called for dialog between the Ukrainian authorities in Kyiv and the Donbass self defence rebels. Russia was the only state to deliver humanitarian aid to the people of Danbass who were under the reprisal attack by the Ukrainian 'National guard and US backed Millita. The US on the other hand was behind the unconstitutional, lawless, destabilisation of Ukraine. It has backed and financed the Maidan coup. received gold payments from Ukraine and positioned its political elite and their sons on boards of influence of Ukrainian state sponsored companies. The US has been calling for de-escalation of the crisis in Ukraine and Russia has delivered. The US/EU response is more sanctions .  I fear that the agreed cease fire is a ploy to buy time and to try and...

Juli 30, 2014 Peter Haisenko in Cockpit of Condor DC 10 By Peter Haisenko                       Zur deutschen Version bitte hier anklicken The tragedy of Malaysian MH 017 continues to elude any light of clarity being cast over it. The flight recorders are in England and are evaluated. What can come of it? Maybe more than you would assume. Especially the voice recorder will be interesting when you look at the picture of a cockpit fragment. As an expert in aviation I closely looked at the images of the wreckage that are circulating on the Internet. First, I was amazed at how few photos can be found from the wreckage with Google. All are in low resolution, except one: The fragment of the cockpit below the window on the pilots side. This image, however, is shocking. In Washington, you can now hear views expresssed of a “potentially tragic error / accid...

Oleh Lyashko ( Олег Ляшко) is a member of the Ukrainian Parliament and the face of fascism in Ukraine today. His tactics and methods of intimidation and violence are extraordinary in any democratic society he would be facing a court and imprisoned. So empowered with immunity he even goes as far of videoing his crimes and pasting them on the internet. YouTube This is just a small collection of his aggression. He is quoted as saying that "[he] will remove tanks from Donbass, turn them around and drive them to Kyiv" a clear threat and act of intimidation against the Governing Authorities in Kyiv,

This web page is a work in progress and contains valuable and useful links to various articles and video;s on the Ukraine MH17 Malaysian Plane crash BBC interview with  eyewitnesses highlighting the existence of Ukrainian fighter jets tailing MH17 at the time of its crash CBC repor t on OSCE preliminary assessment on the crash site indicating that the fuselage of  MH17 was shot down by what looks like 30mm machine gun fire not a missile