Previously on the Bellingat podcast.

A Malaysian Airlines jet flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur appears to have been shot down over eastern Ukraine near Dornets.

This is the crime against humanity.

There was one person who said it felt and sound like the end of the world.

Bodies, so many of them, some in the fields, some by the road.

You see huge fields with corn, with green grass,

and the only thing that you can smell is death.

I'm Elliot Higgins and this is the Bellingat Podcast season 1,

MH17.

Episode 4, Man Hunt. As soon as the 298 people had fallen from the sky over eastern Ukraine, the lies began.

Troll farms, conspiracy theorists, Russian government officials.

They all spread lies and concocted half-truths.

They doctored evidence and shared it widely. Their aim was, and is, to generate enough noise to

mass the truth. At Bellingap, we've been trying to put the truth back together again.

Last time on the podcast we turned to the murder weapon, a book missile launcher. The Russians

had claimed that the projectile that had knocked MH17 from the skies was either a Ukrainian air-to-air missile or a Ukrainian

Army book. But soon enough, Bellingat had used the power of social media and a few key discoveries like matching the book

missile launcher filmed in Ukraine with one filmed in Russia to systematically

dismantle the Russian's official line. We attract the book Missile launcher from its home at Russia's 53rd Air Defense

Brigade, from the Russian city of Kursk to a military camp near the border with Ukraine. We

then tracked it through Ukraine on the day

MX17 was shot down, identified for launch site and the location of its

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