All the more if the building is being used as a military headquarters.
Quoting: Skeptic the First The best explanation for the MH17 shootdown is that:
- Ukraine tried to bomb a rebel military headquarters but mistakenly hit an apartment building
only 300 feet away.
- In "revenge," the rebels brought in a BUK and did a point-and-shoot without operating the electronics to distinguish civilian from military aircraft.
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Two days before the airliner was shot down near this town, Snizhne – part of the breakaway so-called Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) which has declared allegiance to Russia – was bombed by Ukrainian air force jets, which destroyed the apartment block on Lenin Street, killing five women and four men and critically injuring a young boy.
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It is thought the sortie had been targeting
a separatist military base just 100 yards away – which has become the headquarters of Putin’s covert war.
In the words of one local, the bombing attack ‘spread panic’. A day later, others are said to have died in attacks on nearby villages. And this seems to have set in train the chilling sequence of events which led a BUK anti-aircraft missile launcher to be driven across the Russia-Ukraine border on July 17, and moved around Donetsk region to
a field outside Snizhne, where it launched the weapon that blew the Boeing 777 out of the sky.
Although it is widely accepted that the pro-Russian rebels mistook the airliner for a Ukrainian military plane, tensions in the town were high, and locals callously explained the launch as ‘self-defence’.
‘I think taking down the Boeing plane might be the reaction to what’s happening in Snizhne and around our city,’ said Mr Sergey said.
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