The general director of the Russian Channel One Konstantin Ernst admitted that the information that the Boeing of flight MH17 in the Donbass was shot down by a Ukrainian fighter is a lie.

Ernst said this in an interview with The New Yorker.

After the crash of MH17, Russian television propaganda put forward a number of different theories, argued that Russia and the militants were not involved in the downing of the plane, but that Ukraine was responsible for this - it was a failure of the Ukrainian air defense exercises, Ukraine deliberately shot down the plane because it believed.

In one of the broadcasts, they showed a shot from a satellite, on which there is a Ukrainian fighter that allegedly shot down a Boeing. This picture was quickly revealed as a fake..

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At the same time, he believes that the official report of the Joint Investigative Group that MH17 was shot down from the Russian Buk can be trusted, or not.

" I believe that he is unprofessional, "