By: Christian Savoy
Russian state television broadcast a photo Friday that reportedly shows the exact time when Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down by a Ukrainian fighter aircraft on July 17. As reported by BBC, on Nov. 14 Russia’s state-controlled Channel One TV showed photos of a fighter jet near the airliner in the skies above Donetsk, a separatist stronghold in Ukraine, and the channel speculated that the jet might be responsible for the MH17 tragedy. But, as The Associated Press explained, the U.S. government dismissed the report as preposterous and online commentators called the photo a fake.
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