A tape posted by Ukrainian security services in the Internet and allegedly recording a talk between self-defense fighters about the destruction of a Malaysian airliner is a fake, experts said on Sunday.<\/p>\n
A group of experts studied the tape and came to the conclusion that it was made up of numerous unrelated recordings.<\/p>\n
The tape\u2019s second fragment consists of three pieces but was presented as a single audio recording. However, a spectral and time analysis has showed that the dialog was cut into pieces and then assembled. Short pauses in the tape are very indicative: the audio file has preserved time marks which show that the dialog was assembled from various episodes, the expert said.<\/p>\n
The tape\u2019s linguistic analysis also shows that those who made the faked tape clearly didn\u2019t have enough material and time, the expert told Itar-Tass.<\/p>\n
That is why, speech fragments hardly correlate with each other in terms of their sense and the spectral picture of audio materials also differs, the expert said.<\/p>\n
But the most indicative moment is that the audio tape clearly shows that it was created almost a day before the airliner crash, the expert said.<\/p>\n
The intercepted phone conversations released by Ukraine\u2019s security service of pro-Russian rebels discussing how they shot down Malaysian airliner MH17 are “genuine”, the US embassy in Kiev had said on Sunday.<\/p>\n
The recordings that Ukraine\u2019s SBU security agency released on Thursday of what it claimed were phone talks involving rebels and a Russian military intelligence officer admitting that they had hit the passenger jet after mistaking it for a military aircraft.<\/p>\n
The recordings were presented as key evidence to back up Kiev\u2019s claims that rebels downed the jet while the separatists accused Ukraine\u2019s army of being responsible, AFP reported.<\/p>\n
\u201cAudio data provided to the press by the Ukrainian security service was evaluated by Intelligence Community analysts who confirmed these were authentic conversations between known separatist leaders,\u201d the US embassy in Ukraine said in a statement.<\/p>\n
In one of the recordings a rebel commander nicknamed the \u201cMajor\u201d says rebels shot down the plane and tells a disbelieving comrade that the jet is \u201c100 percent a civilian aircraft.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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