Russia’s Malaysia Airlines Conspiracy Theory: Ukraine Was Aiming for Putin’s Plane

Well, that didn’t take long at all: The wreckage from downed Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in Ukraine hadn’t even stopped smoking when Russian-language news sources began explaining what really happened in the skies over Donetsk. And what really happened?

Someone, the theory goes, tried to take down Vladimir Putin’s plane, but missed.

Or at least it was so according to Interfax, a Moscow-based news agency. It cited an anonymous source, purportedly from the federal agency Rosaviation, saying that Putin’s plane crossed MH17’s path near Warsaw, less than an hour apart. From a distance, the two airliners are of a similar size and coloring, as seen below in a handy graphic from Russian propaganda channel RT.

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