Reports that the Malaysian Airlines flight that crashed yesterday was shot down by a group of Russian-backed Cossack militants near the Russia/Ukraine border are true, according to this phone call made 20 minutes after the crash.

The initial phone call is made by a Russian military intelligence officer known as Igor Bezler, and he is reporting to colonel Vasili Geranin in the main intelligence department of the Russian armed forces HQ. There is then a second conversation between militants nicknamed ‘Major’ and ‘Greek’, and then a third between Cossack commander Nikolay Kozitsin talking to an unidentified militant.

Full transcript and recording (if you understand Russian) below:

Igor Bezler: We have just shot down a plane. Group Minera. It fell down beyond Yenakievo (Donetsk Oblast).

Vasili Geranin: Pilots. Where are the pilots?

IB: Gone to search for and photograph the plane. Its smoking.

VG: How many minutes ago?

IB: About 30 minutes ago.

SBU comment: After examining the site of the plane the terrorists come to the conclusion that they have shot down a civilian plane. The next part of the conversation took place about 40 minutes later.

“Major”: These are Chernukhin folks who shot down the plane. From the Chernukhin check point. Those cossacks who are based in Chernukhino.

“Grek”: Yes, Major.

“Major”: The plane fell apart in the air. In the area of Petropavlovskaya mine. The first “200” (code word for dead person). We have found the first “200”. A Civilian.

“Greek”: Well, what do you have there?

“Major”: In short, it was 100 percent a passenger (civilian) aircraft.

“Greek”: Are many people there?

“Major”: Holy sh__t! The debris fell right into the yards (of homes).

“Greek”: What kind of aircraft?

“Major”: I haven’t ascertained this. I haven’t been to the main sight. I am only surveying the scene where the first bodies fell. There are the remains of internal brackets, seats and bodies.

“Greek”: Is there anything left of the weapon?

“Major”: Absolutely nothing. Civilian items, medicinal stuff, towels, toilet paper.

“Greek”: Are there documents?

“Major”: Yes, of one Indonesian student. From a university in Thompson.

Militant: Regarding the plane shot down in the area of Snizhne-Torez. It’s a civilian one. Fell down near Grabove. There are lots of corpses of women and children. The Cossacks are out there looking at all this.

They say on TV it’s AN-26 transport plane, but they say it’s written Malaysia Airlines on the plane. What was it doing on Ukraine’s territory?

Nikolay Kozitsin: That means they were carrying spies. They shouldn’t be f…cking flying. There is a war going on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5E8kDo2n6g

The Russian media are of course trying to cover this up and blame it on Ukraine, but that’s going to be tough to do now that this phone call has been leaked.

Interestingly, without delving too much into conspiracy theory land, here’s what someone on 4chan predicted days before the incident: