Photos and videos of the Snizhne launch location
A piece of land south of Snizhne could be the location from which a BUK TELAR vehicle launched a 9M38-series missile towards MH17 which killed 298 people on board.
This page will collect video’s and photos of the alleged launch location near Snizhne.
Telegraph reporter Roland Oliphant together with Christopher Miller of Mashable went to the launch location at July 22. Oliphant made a video.
Oliphant made shots at two different positions.
The first position is indicated in the image below. Later he moved to the south and made the shots were burned wheat can be seen. This area is indicated by the ‘burned field’ arrow.
Ukraine geolocated where Roland Oliphant filmed at the second most south location.
Christopher Miller of Mashable made the photo below. Miller describes the scene:
We met a farmer named Vasily who pointed us to an unusual oval-shaped scorch mark in his field. “The field down the way burnt the other day. I don’t know why. You might have a look there,” Vasily said, gesturing to the area, which is tucked behind a tree line to the north and east, obscuring it from view from Snizhne and the adjacent roadway. He could not recall whether he noticed the burn mark on July 17 or July 18 of last year.
Blackened wheat and scalded soil marked the spot where the heat was the most intense. Mark Galeotti, an expert on Russian military and special forces, said that, judging by a photo of the area, the back-blast from a Buk missile launch might scorch the ground in similar way.
However, he said, it’s impossible to conclude from looking at the photo whether the burn was caused by a Buk missile or another, similar weapon. (Other multiple-launch missile systems have been used in the Ukraine conflict.)
Near the burned area were varying track marks, discarded water and beer bottles, cigarette packs with labels in Russian as well as melted fragments of plastic with a particular logo.
At June 20, 2017 Miller confirmed the location . Miller also said in a Tweet “But farmer said he hadn’t been in that section of his field recently. Didn’t know how the fire began either. Neighbor alerted him.” On the day we were there, the field showed no signs it had been plowed. It was flat and hard, with grass. But scorched.
The hole field in blue was burned according Miller.
This video shows the edges of the field were ploughed after July 16. Unknow why.
In September 2016 The Telegraph made public two new photos showing burnt patch of field. This is the area which is at the edge of the field. It is not the area near a lone tree where the BUK TELAR was positioned.
At October 26 Hector Reban who does investigation on MH17 asked Chrisopher Miller a couple of questions about his visit to this field. The conversation below was taken from Hector his blog.
At June 19, 2015 a team of JIT visited the area to take soil samples. A video is e.
This is a photo showing JIT taking soil samples near a tree which is isolated from the row of trees at the edge of the field. This tree is about 300 meters east of the burned patch of grass sized about 50 square meters.
Gert-jan Dennekamp, reporter of NOS, visited the alleged launch site. Here his video
German TV ARD video here
Australian 60 minutes here
At June 6 2016 the JIT released an e-zine. One of the articles in the e-zine is about the investigation into the launch area. The e-zine has a picture showing a man probably holding a metal detector searching for explosives. Russia Today reported that experts of the Republic of Donetsk helped JIT by making clear there are no explosives in the field.
Likely the photo was made at the alleged launch location near Snizhne. At seeing the weather conditions are similar to the video showing JIT team in action, the photo shown above could have been made at June 19,2015.
The video of Roland Oliphant shows a couple of poles
According this Tweet, the location of the middle pole is 47.972428, 38.756645
I know the poles, the middle 1 could be here: 47.972428, 38.756645, w/ would put the man somewhere here: 47.974043, 38.763820
— Hungry Wolf (@nvr_cry_wolf)
Michael Kobs made the image below showing the three poles.
Dutch newspaper NRC reporter Steven Derix visited the area in July 2016. The photo below shows the sole tree from where the BUK could have launched the missile
Dutch reporter Jeroen Akkermans of RTL visited the field in July 2016. His many photos of the field can be seen here.
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