{"id":4573,"date":"2015-07-17T17:20:13","date_gmt":"2015-07-17T17:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/?p=4573"},"modified":"2015-12-24T14:23:33","modified_gmt":"2015-12-24T14:23:33","slug":"witness-mh17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/witness-mh17\/","title":{"rendered":"A Witness of the MH17 Tragedy Was Arrested by the Russian Secret Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Oleg Bugrov, one of key witnesses of the MH17 tragedy, who talked about the BUK three days before the attack, arrested by Russian secret service<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The next day after the flight MH17 was shot down, the Security Service of Ukraine posted a video with an audiorecording \u00a0of phone calls between pro-Russian rebels and their coordinators from the GRU, a Russian military intelligence service. In the phone calls recorded on July 14, 2014, Oleg Bugrov complained that he was trying to shoot down a Ukrainian military aircraft near Stanytsia Luhanska and missed it. His coordinator \u201cOreon\u201d told him not to worry and that the situation would change in a couple days as they already had a BUK missile system and they would be shooting all the planes down. Oleg Bugrov replied: \u201cYes, I know about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4574\" style=\"width: 580px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2015\/07\/BUGROV.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4574\" class=\" wp-image-4574\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2015\/07\/BUGROV.png\" alt=\"Oleg Bugrov. \u201cDefense Minister\u201d of the so called Lugansk People\u2019s Republic\" width=\"570\" height=\"437\" srcset=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2015\/07\/BUGROV.png 466w, https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2015\/07\/BUGROV-300x230.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-4574\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oleg Bugrov. \u201cDefense Minister\u201d of the so called Lugansk People\u2019s Republic<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Here is the video posted by the Security Service of Ukraine on July 18, 2014. The conversation between\u00a0Oleg Bugrov and\u00a0\u201cOreon\u201d starts at 0:40. The last phrase of Bugrov is not in the subtitles.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MVAOTWPmMM4?rel=0\" width=\"750\" height=\"563\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>At that time\u00a0Oleg Bugrov was\u00a0\u201cDefense Minister\u201d of the so-called Lugansk People\u2019s Republic. On November 29, 2014, he was put on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=1&amp;cad=rja&amp;uact=8&amp;ved=0CB0QFjAAahUKEwjnpe2KpeLGAhVF1SwKHVr3DHg&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.consilium.europa.eu%2Fen%2Fpress%2Fpress-releases%2F2015%2F02%2Fpdf%2F17022015-russia-sanctions-table---persons--and-entities_pdf%2F&amp;ei=kwWpVaeQNMWqswHa7rPABw&amp;usg=AFQjCNGFQS2Pu7gN48Or8tf9uwhrbARQrA&amp;sig2=NAKvBsw5BI73H2vaRjfAAA&amp;bvm=bv.97949915,d.bGg\">List of persons and entities under EU restrictive measures over the territorial integrity of Ukraine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4575\" style=\"width: 1022px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2015\/07\/Bugrov.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4575\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4575\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2015\/07\/Bugrov.jpg\" alt=\"Oleg Bugrov in EU sanctions list\" width=\"1012\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2015\/07\/Bugrov.jpg 1012w, https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2015\/07\/Bugrov-300x53.jpg 300w, https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2015\/07\/Bugrov-768x137.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1012px) 100vw, 1012px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-4575\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oleg Bugrov in EU sanctions list<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The International Joint Investigation Team of MH17 tragedy posted a YouTube video calling for eyewitnesses on March 30, 2015. The video shows in details a route of a Volvo truck that brought the BUK missile from Russia to Donetsk Oblast through Luhansk. Also, it contains transcripts of intercepted conversations between the terrorists.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4576\" style=\"width: 723px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2015\/07\/BUKroute.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4576\" class=\" wp-image-4576\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2015\/07\/BUKroute.jpg\" alt=\"BUK that shot down MH17 arrived to Donetsk from Russia via Lugansk in the morning of July 17, 2015\" width=\"713\" height=\"436\" srcset=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2015\/07\/BUKroute.jpg 630w, https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2015\/07\/BUKroute-300x183.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 713px) 100vw, 713px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-4576\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">BUK that shot down MH17 arrived to Donetsk from Russia via Lugansk in the morning of July 17, 2015<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>On the same day, on March 30, 2015, Oleg Bugrov was arrested in<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>St. Petersburg, Russia. News about it was reported by Fontanka News Agency <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fontanka.ru\/2015\/03\/31\/179\/\">here<\/a>. According to the information posted by Fontanka, Oleg Bugrov returned to Russia in January 2015. At that time he already was an \u201cex-minister\u201d of the so-called Luhansk People\u2019s Republic. He was arrested by the FSB (Russian Federal Security Service) for \u201cillegal supply of pipes\u201d. He was put in the FSB maximum \u00a0security prison for his smuggling activities. The FSB has only seven such prisons around Russia. You can read news about Bugrov\u2019s detention in English at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/meduza.io\/en\/news\/2015\/04\/01\/ukrainian-separatists-former-defense-minister-detained-in-st-petersburg\">Ukrainian separatists\u2019 former Defense Minister detained in St. Petersburg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oleg Bugrov is a very important witness for the International Joint Investigation Team. It is \u00a0obvious that Russia wants\u00a0to make sure he would not talk.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lugansk-news.com\" target=\"_blank\">Lugansk-News Today<\/a>\u00a0,\u00a0edited by Sveta Kemblowski.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oleg Bugrov, one of key witnesses of the MH17 tragedy, who talked about the BUK three days&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4583,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,528],"tags":[41,500,123,501,502],"class_list":["post-4573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mainnews","category-news","tag-boeing-777","tag-buk-missile-system","tag-mh17","tag-oleg-bugrov","tag-witness-of-the-mh17"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - 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In the phone calls recorded on July 14, 2014, Oleg Bugrov complained that he was trying to shoot down a Ukrainian military aircraft near Stanytsia Luhanska and missed it. His coordinator \u201cOreon\u201d told him not to worry and that the situation would change in a couple days as they already had a BUK missile system and they would be shooting all the planes down. Oleg Bugrov replied: \u201cYes, I know about it.\u201d\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_4574\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"570\"]<a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2015\/07\/BUGROV.png\"><img class=\" wp-image-4574\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2015\/07\/BUGROV.png\" alt=\"Oleg Bugrov. \u201cDefense Minister\u201d of the so called Lugansk People\u2019s Republic\" width=\"570\" height=\"437\" \/><\/a> Oleg Bugrov. \u201cDefense Minister\u201d of the so called Lugansk People\u2019s Republic[\/caption]\r\n\r\nHere is the video posted by the Security Service of Ukraine on July 18, 2014. The conversation between\u00a0Oleg Bugrov and\u00a0\u201cOreon\u201d starts at 0:40. The last phrase of Bugrov is not in the subtitles.\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MVAOTWPmMM4?rel=0\" width=\"750\" height=\"563\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe>\r\n\r\nAt that time\u00a0Oleg Bugrov was\u00a0\u201cDefense Minister\u201d of the so-called Lugansk People\u2019s Republic. On November 29, 2014, he was put on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=1&amp;cad=rja&amp;uact=8&amp;ved=0CB0QFjAAahUKEwjnpe2KpeLGAhVF1SwKHVr3DHg&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.consilium.europa.eu%2Fen%2Fpress%2Fpress-releases%2F2015%2F02%2Fpdf%2F17022015-russia-sanctions-table---persons--and-entities_pdf%2F&amp;ei=kwWpVaeQNMWqswHa7rPABw&amp;usg=AFQjCNGFQS2Pu7gN48Or8tf9uwhrbARQrA&amp;sig2=NAKvBsw5BI73H2vaRjfAAA&amp;bvm=bv.97949915,d.bGg\">List of persons and entities under EU restrictive measures over the territorial integrity of Ukraine<\/a>.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_4575\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"1012\"]<a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2015\/07\/Bugrov.jpg\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-4575\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2015\/07\/Bugrov.jpg\" alt=\"Oleg Bugrov in EU sanctions list\" width=\"1012\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a> Oleg Bugrov in EU sanctions list[\/caption]\r\n\r\nThe International Joint Investigation Team of MH17 tragedy posted a YouTube video calling for eyewitnesses on March 30, 2015. The video shows in details a route of a Volvo truck that brought the BUK missile from Russia to Donetsk Oblast through Luhansk. Also, it contains transcripts of intercepted conversations between the terrorists.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_4576\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"713\"]<a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2015\/07\/BUKroute.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-4576\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2015\/07\/BUKroute.jpg\" alt=\"BUK that shot down MH17 arrived to Donetsk from Russia via Lugansk in the morning of July 17, 2015\" width=\"713\" height=\"436\" \/><\/a> BUK that shot down MH17 arrived to Donetsk from Russia via Lugansk in the morning of July 17, 2015[\/caption]\r\n\r\nOn the same day, on March 30, 2015, Oleg Bugrov was arrested in<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>St. Petersburg, Russia. News about it was reported by Fontanka News Agency <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fontanka.ru\/2015\/03\/31\/179\/\">here<\/a>. According to the information posted by Fontanka, Oleg Bugrov returned to Russia in January 2015. At that time he already was an \u201cex-minister\u201d of the so-called Luhansk People\u2019s Republic. He was arrested by the FSB (Russian Federal Security Service) for \u201cillegal supply of pipes\u201d. He was put in the FSB maximum \u00a0security prison for his smuggling activities. The FSB has only seven such prisons around Russia. You can read news about Bugrov\u2019s detention in English at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/meduza.io\/en\/news\/2015\/04\/01\/ukrainian-separatists-former-defense-minister-detained-in-st-petersburg\">Ukrainian separatists\u2019 former Defense Minister detained in St. Petersburg<\/a>\r\n\r\nOleg Bugrov is a very important witness for the International Joint Investigation Team. It is \u00a0obvious that Russia wants\u00a0to make sure he would not talk.\r\n\r\n<hr \/>\r\n\r\n<em><a href=\"http:\/\/lugansk-news.com\" target=\"_blank\">Lugansk-News Today<\/a>\u00a0,\u00a0edited by Sveta Kemblowski.<\/em>\r\n\r\n<hr \/>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4573"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4584,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4573\/revisions\/4584"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}