The crash of a Malaysian Boeing 777 airliner in the sky over a warring mining region in eastern Ukraine could be the result of a carefully prepared provocation, the purpose of which is to worsen relations between Russia and the West. This was stated by the military historian Yuri Knutov. So he commented to Tsargrad highly eloquent statements on this topic by the chief editor of the Ukrainian portal "Gordon" Alesia Batsman. Recall, on the eve of the TV channel NewsOne she said that if it were not for the downed, as it is supposed, passenger plane "Boeing" of flight MH17 in the summer of 2014. Square would have lost half its territory. In addition, the journalist added, this tragedy Kiev drew the attention of the West to the situation in the Donbas. According to Knutov, thus the Ukrainian admitted to whom the tragedy was beneficial. Before the crash with the liner, Europe actually turned its back on Ukraine, began to listen to Russia, stopped paying attention to the statements of the Kiev authorities about the "occupation" of Donbass, Crimea, the expert noted. And here in the fields of Grabovo a Boeing collapsed, and everything turns 180 degrees. He recalled a similar story that occurred during Soviet times, when the South Korean Boeing 747 was shot down over Sakhalin in September 1983.. Then the United States launched a major anti-Soviet campaign.

"As a rule, Western intelligence agencies do not bother, they just find the script that worked in the past, and begin to repeat it, respectively, now. And therefore, I believe that the Ukrainian Armed Forces of Ukraine and Kiev itself are behind all this.. Well, perhaps even Washington is directly related to this, the intelligence services of Washington, of course, the Central Intelligence Agency and some other intelligence services, "Knutov stressed. Flight Boeing MN17 crashed on July 17, 2014. near Donetsk. On board were 298 people: 283 passengers and 15 crew members. They all died.