There is quite a bit of evidence that locates the whereabouts of the BUK system on July 17, with videos and pictures being taken from Donetsk 9:00 am on a white truck, through Turez, through Torez, and by itself (without the truck) in Shnizhne. All this evidence shows the BUK with netting over its top section, so we can't see how many missiles (if any) it is carrying. The last observation we have is this video from the BUK when it leaves Shnizhne at around 1:30 pm :
Then, there is substantial evidence that a missile was launched (at about 4:20 pm), from a field just south of Shnizhne (US intelligence, and magnificent work by bloggers such as Ukraine@War.
However, there is very little evidence of where this BUK went after 4:20.
In fact, the ONLY evidence we have is that video that started this thread :
which is supposed to show the BUK (with two missiles clearly visible, and more importantly 1 or 2 missing) being trucked out of Ukraine.
This video was first used by the Russian Defense Ministry to put the blame on Ukraine, when they claimed that this video was taken in Krasnoarmeysk, which is under Ukraine control.
However, after some amazing crowd-sourcing work, this video was definitively geo-located on a ringway in Luhansk, driving south-east (towards Krasnodon, and the Russian border).
Timed at around 2am on July 18.
http://www.interpretermag.com/russi...try-claim-about-buk-video-doesnt-add-up/#0613
Now how the heck did that BUK get there ?
Why did they, after they realized that they downed a civilian airliner, not simply drive from Shnizhne across the Russian border ? That's only 5 miles. Why drive this BUK back to Shnizhne, load it on that white truck, forget to put a net over the top, then drive back to Donetsk, or find another way north through to highway M04, then drive M04 all the way to Luhansk, and take a right onto the ringway (Pavlivska St) only to be videotaped at that intersection ?
It makes no sense at all !
And even if they did, why did NOBODY see this truck with the BUK along the way on its way to Luhansk ?
That sounds incredibly unlikely, especially since there was so much evidence recorded in the morning, even BEFORE the news broke that a really big civilian airliner was downed smack in the middle of Donbass, with hundreds of civilian deaths. Many people would have been watching the roads for missile systems passing by.
So, I do not think that BUK went this way back at all. Someone would have noticed it.
Which means that this last video was EITHER :
(1) carries the same BUK as the one in Shnizhne, but the video was taken BEFORE July 17, OR
(2) The video was taken in the night of July 17 alright, but it is carrying a different BUK.
I'm open for any other explanation, but if none exists, then logic reasoning dictates that we have to start exploring (1) and (2) in more detail. And their implications.