Excerpt
On July 17th, at 3:22 P.M.
G.M.T., the Wayback Machine saved a screenshot of Strelkov’s VKontakte post about downing
a plane. Two hours and twenty-two minutes later, Arthur Bright, the Europe editor of the
Christian Science Monitor, tweeted a picture of the screenshot, along with the message
“Grab of Donetsk militant Strelkov’s claim of downing what appears to have been MH17.” By
then, Strelkov’s VKontakte page had already been edited: the claim about shooting down a
plane was deleted. The only real evidence of the original claim lies in the Wayback
Machine.