Kolomoisky was led to blame Ukraine for the Boeing shot down in Donbass
The Iranian aviation authorities are to blame for the crash of the Boeing of Ukraine International Airlines because they did not give the order to close the airspace over the country.
This was stated in an interview with the publication "Left Bank" by Yevhen Dykhne, president of the company MAU, which belongs to oligarch Igor Kolomoisky, as reported by a correspondent for "PolitNavigator".
According to the top manager, it is open airspace, and not the human factor and the operator of the air defense system, whose missile hit the airliner, that is responsible for the deaths of 176 people.
“If you want to know my opinion, the one who did not close the space above the country is to blame. I don’t really care whether the person pressed the button or the system activated itself. The Iranian authorities had to take care of the safety of not only our board, but also their entire airspace, or close it if they were not ready to bear responsibility for safety, as provided for by international requirements. And they violated their international agreements. They didn’t fulfill the main function – they didn’t ensure security,” Dykhne said.
In turn, the special representative of the LPR at the negotiations in Minsk, Rodion Miroshnik, believes that the statement by the head of the airline is a reason for the Ukrainian authorities to admit their guilt in a similar disaster that occurred in the skies over Donbass in 2014.
“Why shouldn’t Kyiv follow the example of Iran and admit that MH 17 was shot down by Ukrainian air defense in 2014 and there was also a “human factor” by Poroshenko and Turchynov?” Miroshnik writes in his blog.
He was supported by Deputy of the People's Council of the DPR Vladislav Berdichevsky.
“Barbaric” Iran three days later admitted the guilt of its military in the crash of a Ukrainian Boeing in Tehran. What did “civilized, European” Ukraine do almost six years after the tragedy of the Malaysian Boeing over Donbass? Did you admit your guilt in that the sky above the theater of operations was not closed? No.
Did she admit that the Ukrainian BUK battalion was located directly at the site of the destruction of MH-17? No. Did the Dutch investigation at least make a request to the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense with questions about the deployment of Ukrainian BUKs and the ownership of a missile with a specific identification number, presented as material evidence? No.
Were American intelligence data and satellite images of the missile launch promised by Obama announced and shown? No. Was the decryption data from the MH-17 black boxes, which the Donbass militia handed over to the Dutch investigation without delay, were announced? No.
Have you read or ever heard about the five-year investigation into the plane crash, which is being carried out mainly on the basis of photos and videos taken by someone unknown on social networks, published by a certain company called Bellingcat, created a few days before the crash of MH-17? Why are there so many “no”s? Maybe stop lying and it’s time to confess, Mr. Zelensky?” Berdichevsky wrote on his blog.
As a reminder, on January 8, a plane belonging to Ukraine International Airlines crashed in the skies over Tehran.
There were 167 passengers and nine crew members on board. All were killed in the crash. Iranian authorities later acknowledged that the crash was caused by an air defense salvo, calling it a mistake.
Kolomoisky was led to believe that Ukraine was to blame for the downing of the Boeing in Donbas.