{"id":1568,"date":"2018-05-26T21:51:59","date_gmt":"2018-05-26T21:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/packetstormsecurity.com\/news\/view\/28989\/Russian-Unit-GRU-Officer-Linked-To-2014-Shoot-Down-Of-Airliner-Over-Ukraine.html"},"modified":"2018-05-26T21:51:59","modified_gmt":"2018-05-26T21:51:59","slug":"russian-unit-gru-officer-linked-to-2014-shoot-down-of-airliner-over-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/russian-unit-gru-officer-linked-to-2014-shoot-down-of-airliner-over-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian Unit, GRU Officer Linked To 2014 Shoot-Down Of Airliner Over Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/GettyImages-962316738-800x499.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/GettyImages-962316738.jpg\" class=\"enlarge-link\" data-height=\"639\" data-width=\"1024\">Enlarge<\/a> <span class=\"sep\">\/<\/span> Eliot Higgins (C), founder of online investigation group Bellingcat, addresses a press conference on findings within research on Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in Scheveningen, The Netherlands, on May 25, 2018. &#8211; The Netherlands and Australia on May 25 accused Moscow of being behind the 2014 shooting down of flight MH17 over war-torn eastern Ukraine with the loss of 298 lives, in a move which may trigger legal action.<\/div>\n<div class=\"caption-credit\">REMKO DE WAAL \/ Getty Images<\/div>\n<aside id=\"social-left\"><a title=\"82 posters participating\" class=\"comment-count icon-comment-bubble-down\" href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2018\/05\/russian-unit-gru-officer-linked-to-2014-shoot-down-of-airliner-over-ukraine\/?comments=1\"><span class=\"comment-count-before\">reader comments<\/span> <span class=\"comment-count-number\">153<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"share-links\"><span>Share this story<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Officials from the Netherlands and Australia today <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-44252150\">formally stated<\/a> that they are convinced Russia was responsible for the deployment of the &#8220;Buk&#8221; anti-aircraft missile system that <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2014\/07\/how-us-satellites-pinpointed-source-of-missile-that-shot-down-airliner\/\">shot down Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 (MH17) in 2014<\/a>. \u00a0The announcement came a day after a Dutch-led joint investigation team released a report on their findings, which concluded the missile had belonged to the Russian Army&#8217;s 53rd anti-aircraft brigade, which was based outside the city of Kursk, north of the Ukrainian border.<\/p>\n<p>Physical evidence collected by investigators, along with radar track and flight recorder data, pointed to the use of a specific warhead type associated with Buk surface-to-air missiles. Paint transferred from fragments of the missile to the aircraft&#8217;s fuselage was matched with recovered parts of the missile.<\/p>\n<p>Russia has long denied that any of its military equipment ever crossed the border into eastern Ukraine, and the Russians presented several alternative scenarios\u2014including blaming the downing of the airliner on a Ukrainian Air Force pilot. The Russians at first claimed to have radar evidence proving their allegation, but the country then said it was lost\u2014only to claim they had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bellingcat.com\/news\/uk-and-europe\/2018\/02\/10\/truth-behind-russian-embassy-netherlands-russias-strength-truth-branding-proposal\/\">found the evidence again just two days before the Joint Investigative Team&#8217;s 2016 press conference<\/a>. The separate target that Russia claimed to have identified on radar was actually part of MH17\u2019s \u00a0fuselage breaking away after the missile detonated.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"pullbox sidebar story-sidebar right\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>A significant portion of the evidence pointing to the involvement of the 53<sup>rd<\/sup>\u00a0brigade&#8217;s missile systems came from open source intelligence analysis, which used photos and videos posted by Russians to social media sites showing a convoy of vehicles from the 53<sup>rd<\/sup> headed toward the Ukrainian border. Details from the images and videos, including license plates on the military vehicles and details of the surroundings that were matched with Google Street View photos, provided investigators with the route and timeline of the Buk missile systems&#8217; movements.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KDiLEyT9spI?start=0&amp;wmode=transparent\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption-text\">A Dutch Safety Board video presenting the reconstruction of what happened to MH17 on July 17, 2014.<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bellingcat.com\/news\/uk-and-europe\/2018\/05\/25\/mh17-russian-gru-commander-orion-identified-oleg-ivannikov\/\">Further research from investigators and reporters<\/a> at the open source intelligence research group <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bellingcat.com\/about\/\">Bellingcat<\/a>, the Russian investigative news site <a href=\"https:\/\/theins.ru\/politika\/103853\">The Insider<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcclatchydc.com\/news\/nation-world\/world\/article211836174.html#cardLink=row1_card2\">McClatchy News Service&#8217;s Washington, DC bureau<\/a> identified an officer of Russia&#8217;s Main Intelligence Directorate (<em>Glavnoye razvedyvatel&#8217;noye upravleniye<\/em><em>,<\/em> abbreviated as GRU) who was tied to the deployment of the Buk antiaircraft system involved in the shoot-down of MH17.<\/p>\n<p>Working from interviews with separatists, recorded phone calls, and calling application data, the team was able to track down Oleg Vladimirovich Ivannikov\u2014even calling him on his associated number and getting him to identify himself, which provided a voice sample in the process. Ivannikov has been connected with other covert military operations, including serving under a pseudonym for eight years in the government of the Russian-backed separatists in South Ossetia\u2014first as chairman of the security council and later as defense minister.<\/p>\n<p>Russian journalists reported that Ivannikov&#8217;s current role included providing training and money for &#8220;private&#8221; military operations in Syria, such as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/05\/24\/world\/middleeast\/american-commandos-russian-mercenaries-syria.html\">one that attacked US forces (and was beaten back with heavy casualties) earlier this year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There has previously been ample evidence of Russia&#8217;s involvement with eastern Ukraine separatists. Russian social media has even provided videos made by Russians of rocket launches from the Russian side of the border targeting Ukraine. Google Earth images have shown evidence of Russian military vehicle movement and rocket launches. And Russian troops have even made social media posts from within Ukraine, including the <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2014\/08\/the-sad-strange-saga-of-russias-sergeant-selfie\/\">strange case of &#8220;Sergeant Selfie&#8221;<\/a>\u2014a Russian soldier who left geo-tagging turned on while posting pictures of himself inside his armored vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE <a href=\"https:\/\/packetstormsecurity.com\/news\/view\/28989\/Russian-Unit-GRU-Officer-Linked-To-2014-Shoot-Down-Of-Airliner-Over-Ukraine.html\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>READ MORE 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