The rebels respond:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/malaysia-airlines...

>“The plane was shot down by the Ukrainian side,” said Serhiy Kavtaradze, a member of the rebels’ security council, according to the Russia’s Interfax news agency. “We simply do not have such air defense systems.” He said rebels’ shoulder-launched antiaircraft missiles “have a firing range of only 3,000 to 4,000 meters” and that passenger jets fly at much higher altitudes.

He denied that the rebels possess the SA-17 Buk air-defense as Kiev alleges."

Apparently a rebel leader was bragging about having captured a Buk, but the post has now been deleted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8048729https://news.yco...