The ways applied by the portal Bellingcat For the study of satellite images provided by Russia in support of its version of the causes of the MH17 catastrophe, can not stand any opponents, said in an interview to the magazine, a specialist in the analysis of forensic photography From Hamburg Jens Crisis.

In a few days after the Malaysian airlines Boeing-777 flying From Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur in July last year collapsed to the site of Ukraine, the Russian General staff provided the data of objective observation. Space photos of the individual locations of anti-aircraft APU, made the day of the crash, confirmed that the plane could be shot down by a Ukrainian missile.

later researchers Bellingcat group about the fact that the Russian Ministry of defense " manipulated digital images that have been processed in a computer program Phoptoshop.

"Method applied Bellingcat, from a position of expertise not stand up to any opponents. At its core, it relies on the so-called ELA-analysis. This Method is not taught and subjective, " said criminologist.

according to his application, with the help of this method, are compression artifacts, a small deviation from the original, which occur when saving images in JPEG format. They can be represented in color. The observer in this case is to decide whether the sample so much that can be summed up about the manipulation, or the deviation is color nuance, which Vsplanet, maybe eventually captured of the object - for example, clouds.

In order to clearly summarize about the falsification of photographs, Bellingsat was placed on the original photos, proves a specialist.

"They state:" the Metadata shows that the photos were processed in Photoshop. Which means that there have been added some clouds to hide something ". In fact, the statement that was used in Photoshop metadata, says nothing. Some like the Russians were obliged to prepare these photos For publication: for example, They added to the photo frames and text boxes that explain the content of the pictures For the audience. This can be the reason for the detection of artifacts, or They appeared due to the fact that the photos many times personnalis in JPEG format, " says the Crisis.

"During the war, the truth dies first. Each party is trying to prove something. We cannot know, demonstrate whether these pictures are exactly what proves Moscow. But this "analysis" also did not provide, except to increase the popularity of portal Bellingcat ", - says the expert-criminalist.

Passenger Boeing 777 organization Malaysia airlines flying From Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, crashed on July 17 last year in the Donetsk region. Lost the lives of all 298 passengers in the cabin, 193 Of them were residents of the Netherlands.

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