The head of Ukraine’s secret service has claimed rebels intended to down a Russian airliner to give Vladimir Putin a pretext for invasion – but blasted Flight MH17 out of the sky by mistake. Valentyn Nalyvaichenko said that Russian-backed fighters were supposed to take their BUK rocket launcher – which had been transported across the Russian border – to a village called Pervomaiskoe in Ukrainian-held territory west of Donetsk. Instead, they mistakenly positioned it in a rebel-controlled village of the same name to the east of the city. Scroll down for video Got it wrong? Valentyn Nalyvaichenko claims pro-Russian rebels targeted the wrong civilian airliner
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Valentyn Nalyvaichenko said pro-Russian rebels hit wrong civilian plane
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Claims they were aiming for Moscow airliner so Putin had reason to invade
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Would have hit an Aeroflot flight from Moscow to Larnaca in Cyprus, he says
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An ‘immense convoy’ comprising ‘troops and military hardware’ was thwarted from entering the country early yesterday, according to a senior @placeholder official, amid fears of a full-scale war breaking out.