If it is confirmed that the Boeing-777 on the Amsterdam-Kuala Lumpur route with 298 persons on board, was shot down on July 17 over Southeast Ukraine, where a military campaign against the pro-Russian civil population continues since the arrival in power of President Piotr Poroshenko – considered a pro-western and pro-US puppet – one can only agree with Fidel Castro’s qualification of an “unusual provocation”.

 

Why? This is the first attempt, qualified as extremely dangerous, to “internationalize” the conflict. The aim is clear: to accuse, as has been done repeatedly, President Vladimir Putin of being responsible for a war that smells of gas and tastes like petroleum. Now this has new dimensions, since it is involving other countries to funnel them into a pro-US war along with US allies, or more exactly, US interests.

 

An important part of the international press is taking this interpretation with respect to the “accident” of the Malaysia Airlines flight, with the clear intention of reinforcing the above accusation. But part of the analysis of this news concentrates on the geopolitical origin of the war itself. That is to say, there is a campaign orchestrated from the West to undermine Russia and deprive it of strategic regional controls, both for energy reserves as well as supplies of oil and gas towards the European Union.

 

There may be other factors, but these are the outstanding ones. Let us look at some characteristics of the aforementioned incident, or rather, the “attack.”

 

Not only because the Prime Minister of the Donetsk People’s Republic, Alexander Borodái, has said so, in fact their “self-defence” forces simply do not have arms capable of downing an aircraft flying at an altitude of ten kilometres. In addition, the militias found and handed over to international representatives, one of the two black boxes of the aircraft, and were ready to declare a three-day truce to allow for the investigation of the catastrophe.

 

Are the Ukrainian armed forces of Poroshenko willing to do the same? If this were the case, there would also be a need for further clarification, before running to allot blame for the downing of the Malaysian aircraft. For example, according to the president of the Russian Interstate Committee of Aviation, Alexei Morozov, Ukraine has the responsibility for investigating the causes of the downing of the aircraft. How can they accuse the pro-Russians, if their self-defence groups do not have Buk or S-300 missile systems? No Buk system, nor any other kind of arms have entered Ukraine from Russia, according to an official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defence. Why did the Ukrainian Air Control order the pilots to go down to the altitude at which they were downed?

 

The questioning, in ten points – I cite some of them – of the Russian Vice minister of Defence, Anatoli Antónov, to his Ukrainian colleagues, can serve as a basis: On what do they base their accusation of responsibility of the Ukrainian self-defence forces? Why do they have a system of Buk ground-air missiles in this conflict zone and how are they employed?  Why has the international commission not yet been formed; as well as an inventory of missiles under their control? “Why did the Security Service of Ukraine begin work on the recordings of communications between the Ukrainian Air control and the crew of the Boeing, as well as with the data storage systems on Ukrainian radar, without waiting for the international investigators?” Investigation should precede accusations, right?   But the US, France and Germany already accuse Russia. This is the attempt to “internationalize” the air disaster that remains to be investigated.

 

- Salvador González Briceño was Director of El Día en 2009. Director of Reporte México. sgonzalez@reportemexico.com.mx