DPR: info on "former Russian general's" involvement in Boeing crash is fake
MOSCOW. April 2 (Interfax) - The administration of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) said the statements alleging the involvement of some "former Russian general" called Sergei Petrovsky in the downing of the Malaysian Boeing are fake.
"Some half a year after the accident, a recording appeared from somewhere, from which it follows that some people issue commands to down the Boeing and then try to hide the Buk system, which was allegedly used to down the plane, like a box of matches, and then some Sergei Petrovsky appears. It's all nonsense," Eduard Basurin, a senior official in the DPR Defense Minister, told Interfax.
Basurin said this information cannot be anything else but "a regular fake."
Some Western media earlier reported that a "former Russian general Sergei Petrovsky is involved in the case involving the crash of the Malaysian Boeing over Donetsk. The media draw conclusions about his involvement in the crash from deciphered recordings of a conversation published by the Ukrainian Security Service.
The Russian Defense Ministry earlier criticized the Ukrainian media and special services reports alleging that there is evidence that the Malaysian Boeing was shot down by a Russian surface-to-air missile system Buk, calling them "lies."