Russia challenges Kiev’s satellite images of MH17 crash site — RT News
Ukrainian satellite images that Kiev published as proof that it didn’t deploy anti-aircraft batteries, to contest Russian evidence to the contrary, had its timestamps altered, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
The satellite images, which Kiev said were taken by its two satellites at the same time as the images taken by Russian satellites, were neither Ukrainian nor authentic, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement Friday on its website.
The Defense Ministry said the images were apparently made by an American KeyHole reconnaissance satellite, because the two Ukrainian satellites currently in orbit, Sich-1 and Sich-2, were not positioned over the part of Ukraine’s Donetsk Region shown in the pictures.
Moreover, the images released by Ukraine were not authentic, because weather and lighting conditions they show would not be possible at the dates and times Ukraine claimed they were made, the Russian military said.
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