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>> a group of separatists can't shoot down military transport planes, or they claim, shoot down fighter jets without sophisticated equipment and sophisticated training. and that is coming from russia. >> and on top of that, michael, at brooke,ininbrookings, at you you have a piece up saying the most damning evidence so far, separatist leader igor wrote, an antonov-26 has just been shot down crashing somewhere near the mine called process. we have warned you, do not fly in our air space. the ukrainian air force flies transport aircraft and the posting is consistent with the time and location of...

Accidentally shot down a passenger's plane. they thought they were targeting a ukrainian military transport, an antonov 26, as that call referred to which is the kind of plane they shot down earlier this week in fact on monday. and in fact this time took down by accident it appears a malaysian passenger jet. again, this is based purely on information coming from the ukrainian side. u.s. officials have not corroborated it. but it also gels with other information the ukrainian officials have noted. and that is that one of the pro-russian militant leaders tweeted proudly at the time that this pla...

In this region? it's pretty damning, jim. >> it's very damning. and you're right to make that caveat. this is coming from ukrainian authorities. u.s. authorities have not confirmed this. but the ukrainian officials have i spoken with throughout the day couple this with other evidence, including a tweet that went up from a leader of the pro-russian militants at the time the plane was shot down, first bragging that they had shot down a russian military transport, an antonov 26, which is also referenced in those recordings, claiming it. and then later deleting that tweet when it turned out it was...

That in recent days, they have shot down an antonov 26. that's an army, a ukrainian army supply aircraft that in the last two days they have shot down a fighter aircraft. the pilot in that case was able to parachute out safely over ukrainian airspace and was -- over ukraine and was picked up safely when he got on the ground. but what the government is presenting here is a very strong package of evidence that we cannot independently verify that does put forward their position. what we're hearing from the president here is that it's really trying to internationalize the situation by forming a co...

Firings of any weapons, nor would they have any reason to try to shoot down any kind of an aircraft flying over eastern ukraine. and they point to the fact that two other ukrainian military aircraft have been brought down in previous days over this region. nick paton walsh, though, we should point out that there was, on a website, and the ukrainian officials pointed to this, a statement by some separatists that they had, in fact, brought down a plane a short time before the reports that this plane was brought down. >> yes, they're pointing to twitter traffic, social media from one of the milit...