New analysis of a report about the downed Malaysian airliner in Ukraine proves that the Russians tried to falsify evidence in order to blame their rivals.
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[The Russian] report appears to have been a sham, according to detailed forensic analysis conducted by Eliot Higgins, a visiting research associate at King’s College London’s war studies department, and his team of digital investigators at Bellingcat, the organization behind the new report.
After determining the source of the photos — in this case Russia’s Defense Ministry — Bellingcat analyzed their metadata, and checked them against publicly available satellite imagery of the same location from dates before and after July 17.
Higgins told Mashable that he’s “100% confident” Bellingcat’s analysis proves Russia’s Defense Ministry presented “faked” satellite imagery from June 2014 as being from the days leading up to the downing of MH17 in July 2014.
Moreover, further forensic analysis showed the ministry doctored the images to add elements that would obscure details, which could disprove its authenticity and lend credence to its claim that Kiev was behind the attack.