A driver followed this
military truck (left and inset) on a main road on Saturday night for two
kilometres in a 'border area' of Russia before uploading the footage, filmed
with a dashboard camera, on the internet. The cargo had no escort and Ukrainian
sources have seized on it, captioning the footage: 'A Russian blogger filmed
the BUK M1 in Russia, the one that shot the Boeing.' Reports from Ukraine
suggested the BUK had been smuggled in the dead of night into Russia soon after
the plane was blasted out of the sky on Thursday last week. It came after
images were released of a launcher rumbling through Torez (right), held by
pro-Russian separatists, just two hours before the Malaysia Airlines flight was
shot down.
While the footage is visibly in Russia rather than Ukraine, the exact
location is not given.
A second truck is also evident in some frames.
It was filmed at around 8.45pm on Saturday.
Reports from Ukraine suggested the BUK had been smuggled in the dead of
night into Russia soon after the plane was blasted out of the sky on Thursday
last week.
It came after images were released of a launcher rumbling through Torez,
held by pro-Russian separatists, just two hours before the Malaysia Airlines
flight was shot down.
In a tense phone call with Vladimir Putin, David Cameron said Russia would have to 'present compelling and credible evidence'
that the Kremlin-backed separatists were not to blame for 298 people -
including 10 Britons - being killed despite the images and footage.
He told Mr
Putin that blocking international investigators and rescue teams from accessing
the site was 'indefensible', a Downing Street spokesman said.
Mr Cameron is furious that Mr Putin has kept him waiting despite the
British death toll. A Downing Street source said Mr Cameron was expressing his
anger that 'ten of my citizens have just been killed with a plane that was
brought down by a missile that was shot by Russian separatists'.
A Downing Street source admitted there was 'a sense of frustration that
we have not be able to speak to him sooner'. Following the call, Mr Cameron
wrote on Twitter: 'I've just spoken to President Putin. I made clear he must
ensure access to the crash site so the victims can have proper funerals.'
Pro-Russian rebels today said they have recovered the black boxes from
MH17 and taken them to Donetsk where they will be handed over to international
investigators.
Rebel leader Aleksander Borodai told a press conference in Donetsk:
'Some items, presumably the black boxes, were found, and they have been
delivered to Donetsk and they are under our control. There are no specialists
among us who could pinpoint the look of the black boxes, but we brought to
Donetsk some technical items which could be the black boxes of the airliner.'
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