also a problem, the rocket has a number indicating that the rocket was not on the territory of Ukraine. in the 90s, Russia sold it to Georgia, after which they resold it.
If one lie didn't work, coat it with another layer of more lies.
"We didn't celebrate the delivery of a new Buk launcher" - "It was a MiG" - "We didn't shoot an Ukrainian aircraft down with it before, it was a shoulder launcher missile reaching to 31000 ft" - "It was no MiG, but an Ukrainian Su-25"- "We didn't launch
this missile" - "It was not a Buk." - "It was not
our Buk" - "It was an Ukrainian Buk standing right in Russian-occupied territory." - "It was our Buk, but not our missile."
What comes next?
"It was our missile and our launcher and our people operating the launcher, but the missile flew through a wormhole and hit an aircraft 100 km away."
"It was our missile and our launcher and our people operating the launcher, but an giant eagle caught the missile and transported it to the wrong aircraft."
"It was our missile and our launcher and our people operating the launcher, but it was all planned by
Trotsky Nawalny."
Maybe better go with the version in court:
"Three Russians and an Ukrainian conspired to misappropriate a Russian SAM system and transport it into east Ukraine, as far as we can tell, without knowledge of the Russian government. A lot of small cogs in the machine suddenly had been richer than the Russian government allows and now suddenly decided to begin a new life in Sibiria."