The investigative group is Bellingcat published new data on the accident Boeing 777 airline Malaysia Airlines in the area of armed conflict in Ukraine in 2014. According to the text Bellingcat, a man who controlled the transfer of anti-aircraft missile complex “Buk” on the territory of a neighboring country, could be Colonel-General of the Federal security service (FSB) of the Russian Federation Andrey Burlaka, renowned combatants as “Vladimir”. Appearing in the investigation of ex-Minister of defence DND Igor Strelkov (Girkin), ostensibly to communicate with “Vladimir Ivanovich” in conversation with “Kommersant” did not comment on the researchers ‘ findings, just repeating your standard phrase “the Militia did not shoot down the Boeing”.Assistance and coordination”November 14, 2019 Joint investigation team (JIT) announced that she has proof: a few months before the tragedy, the Russian Federation has implemented administrative, financial and military control of the territory of the so-called Donetsk people’s Republic (DPR), which was launched missile complex “Buk”,”— said early in the investigation, Bellingcat, whose goal was to establish how and by whom was exercised this control.17 Jul 2014 the Boeing 777 passenger plane Malaysia Airlines, EN route from Holland Amsterdam to Malaysia Kuala Lumpur, crashed in a combat zone in Eastern Ukraine, 50 km from the border with Russia. The disaster occurred four months after the beginning of the military conflict between the armed forces of Ukraine and fighters of the breakaway Donetsk and Lugansk national republics (DND and LNR). All 298 people, including 80 children and 15 crew members aboard were killed. The investigation took up the security Council of the Netherlands (SBN), which decided the aircraft was downed by shrapnel warhead 9Н314М of the rocket “earth—air” 9M38 anti-aircraft missile system (SAM) “Buk”. The Russian side initially claimed responsibility for the Downing of MH17 lies in the Ukrainian air force. Later a different version of the incident suggested that the representatives of the Russian concern “Almaz-Antey” — the manufacturer of the Buk missile system. They set not only the type of missile brought down the Malaysian Boeing 777, but the area where she could be launched — the settlement zaramensky. The Deputy corps commander defense Ministry of DNR, Eduard Basurin claimed that this settlement is the day of the crash MH17 “was under the complete control of the armed forces of Ukraine”.Read next statement, the JIT was alleged that the contact between the self-proclaimed leadership DNR and the Russian Federation was carried out with the assistance of the FSB secure phones. Some of these talks were, apparently, intercepted and deciphered by the experts JIT. In recognition of investigators, some figuretov of these conversations — in particular, the former adviser to the Russian President Vladislav Surkov to learn was easy. But with the identification of the other participants have any difficulty. Interest Bellingcat has attracted some “Vladimir”, which, on the basis of the published JIT transcripts of negotiations played a prominent role in the management of the situation — he, as can be seen from the transcripts of negotiations, gave the orders, “defense Minister DNR” Igor Strelkov and gave “good” to destroy the detachments of the field commander Igor Bezler, “the Prime Minister DNR” Alexander Boroday. And it is to him Mr. Boroday addressed in order to organize armed detachments of fire support to Russian helicopters.From this the investigators conclude that Vladimir Ivanovich — member of the Russian special services. Requested from among “the FSB in Rostov” things have night vision devices, weapons and ammunition. Finally, in one of the intercepted conversations “Vladimir Ivanovich” referred to as “high-ranking officials from Moscow.”Bellingcat finds that at the beginning of the Russian intervention in the situation in the Donbass, two Russian special services — the FSB and GRU (we are talking about the Main Directorate of the General staff of the armed forces, which is better known under its previous acronym) conducted separate operations in support of the militia.”Obviously, the “Vladimir” — the FSB, which was tasked to coordinate the cross-border transfer of weapons,” write the investigators. Now they had to figure out who is hiding under this pseudonym.Mysterious sotrudnichaet Bellingcat began to search for the name “Vladimir Ivanovich” through public programs and instant messengers. App GetContact (sort keys to mobile numbers) indicated that one of the users of a room +79381340450 listed in the phone book as “Vladimir”. In older versions of the software from older version of the database to “Vladimir Ivanovich” added the surname Burlak.Starting the search for Vladimir Ivanovich Burlak, investigators found only one employee of the Russian special services, however he died before 2014, and they came to the conclusion that it is a pseudonym. It began to look in the cracked and posted on the Internet correspondence of the officials of the DNR and the Russian Federation (including Vladislav Surkov) and found a letter most likely sent by the businessman Konstantin Malofeev Mr. Surkov, which listed the candidates in the new government of the DNI. At the end of the letter Mr Malofeev had advised his interlocutor to discuss with you”, Vladimir Ivanovich,” the candidacy of the commander of the battalion “East” Alexander Khodakovsky.Finally, Bellingcat has moved to the analysis of the hacked correspondence Viber messenger, where as a result drew attention to Alexander GrayVA — assistant Denis Pushilin, now the head of DNI, and then — speaker of the Parliament of the breakaway Republic. It turned out that Mr. Serov corresponded with high-ranking civil servants of the DNI, and one of the messages indicated that “Vladimir” — the Deputy head of the FSB, whose real name — Andrei Ivanovitch. Alexander Serov pointed out that this person is responsible for releases of warlords.Then investigators began to look for in the leadership of the FSB “Andrei Ivanovich” and found the head of the operational and organizational management of the Border service of FSB of Russia the General-Lieutenant Andrey Burlaka, the first Deputy head of the Border service Vladimir Kulishova (which, in turn, holds the post of Deputy head of the FSB Alexander Bortnikov). To test their hypothesis, they decided to find the voice of master boatmen and compare it with the voice of “Vladimir Ivanovich” from trapped in the Donbas negotiations.”Star” decidable quickly found a video clip of an interview that Mr. Burlaka has given Orenburg regional television. However, to make sure that we are talking about this man, Bellingcat needed a longer fragment, at least a minute. At first, the quest ended in failure — the movies with his participation was, however, the voice on them was not available. The experts used the image search, and their attention was attracted by the picture: on one of the sites of Internet Commerce sold a TV for 9 thousand rubles had been attached To photography, among them — the frame of the TV channel “Zvezda”, which by a lucky accident investigators was just talking to the camera Andrey Burlaka. The announcement was posted June 1, 2018, and investigators decided to look at all programs for that day. Finally, in the 28th minute of the fourth series of the documentary film “the Border. Special conditions of service” they saw Mr. Burlaka and heard his voice once recorded. The recording was transmitted to the National centre of forensic mediaexperts the University of Colorado. Centre Director Professor Catalin Grigoras, an expert on the analysis of digital audio messages, the report indicated that “computer analysis showed a likelihood ratio, which indicates moderate support for the assertion that the test voice belongs to that person, not another person whose voice was recorded in similar conditions”.Experts Bellingcat notice that the computer analysis takes into account only the acoustic similarity of the voices, but not paying attention on the phonemes, intonation, and linguistic. In investigative the center note that if they are taken into account, no doubt supplies the voice of Mr. Burlaka will remain. “Based on a comprehensive analysis of the collected evidence, Bellingcat came to the conclusion that the officer of FSB of the published JIT negotiations, identified as “Vladimir”, can be confidently identified as Colonel-General Andrey Ivanovich Burlak”— summed up in the research center.At the same time, a parallel examination of the recordings made on request by BBC News showed it as a similarity and some difference in the votes of the General haulers and “Vladimir Ivanovich”.We will remind, on March 9 at the judicial complex Schiphol near Amsterdam, the trial began in the case of a catastrophe in the sky over the Donbas. A criminal trial must answer the question: how guilty is Igor Strelkov (Girkin) and three of his subordinates — two Russians (Oleg Pulatov, Sergey Dubinsky) and one Ukrainian (Leonid Kharchenko) — the destruction of the aircraft. None of the defendants at the trial is not present, however, the interests of Mr. Pulatov to assert they hired lawyers — two Dutch lawyer, Russian lawyer Helen Kutina.Moscow argued that the court in the Hague is politicised. “Russia counts on a professional, depoliticized participation of all stakeholders across the entire spectrum of factors in the MH17 tragedy. Dialogue is not a lecture that we heard from the Joint investigation team and process, where both sides listen to each other. Unfortunately, we are far. A politicized and biased legal show in the Hague, the harder this process and bringing us closer to the truth”,— said, in particular, in early April, at the permanent representation to the UN. Moscow has repeatedly said that it is about “fitting the facts to fit predetermined conclusions”.Meanwhile, Igor Gunmen in a conversation with “Kommersant” did not comment on the results of the investigation Bellingcat, only saying: “You know my standard answer to these questions. The militia did not shoot down the Boeing. No more comments not give.” On the possible role of Russia, Mr. arrow spoke.Alexey Naumov, Kirill Krivosheev
