At 16:18 local time on 17 July 2014 a soldier nicknamed "Nayomnik" calls a Russian GRU officer Igor Bezler "Byes" covertly fighting in Ukraine to report that a "bird is flying towards you". Bezler asks is the aircraft is "big or recon one", but "Nayomnik" says he can't see from behind the clouds. Bezler relayed the information upstream to his commanders and two minutes later a "Buk" surface-to-air missile launcher brought from Russia into Ukraine a few days before fired one missile at the aircraft. Russian media promptly announced "yet another victory of Donbas self-defense" still believing they shot down an Ukrainian military aircraft, but half an hour later they found the wreckage and suddenly reverted the story, claiming they had nothing to do with its downing.