The Security Service of Ukraine intercepted telephone conversations — I. Bezler (aka ‘Bes’) reports to his coordinator, the Russian GRU colonel V. Geranin on a civil airplane recently shot down by militants.
Read the full transcript of an intercepted phone call below:
Igor Bezler: We have just shot down a plane. Group Minera. It fell down beyond Yenakievo (Donetsk Oblast).
Vasili Geranin: Pilots. Where are the pilots?
IB: Gone to search for and photograph the plane. Its smoking.
VG: How many minutes ago?
IB: About 30 minutes ago.