This is Igor Girkin, the self-proclaimed defense minister of the Donetsk People’s Republic.

Igor Girkin

Igor Girkin

Earlier today he allegedly posted this on VK.com, which is Russia’s Facebook.

Igor Girkin confession

Was this a confession?

The headline says “summary of shooting” and it evidently says:

“In the vicinity of Torez, we just downed a plane, an AN-26. It is lying somewhere in the Progress Mine. We have issued warnings not to fly in our airspace. We have video confirming. The bird fell on a waste heap. Residential areas were not hit. Civilians were not injured.”

The post was later removed but not before the post was copied and cached.His page is now issuing repeated denials,