Immediately after the crash Catastrophe , a post appeared Coming_to_be on the VKontakte social media profile attributed Causation to Igor Girkin , leader of the Donbass separatist militia , claiming Statement responsibility for shooting down Use_firearm a Ukrainian An-26 military transporter near Torez .

Russian news agency TASS also reported Reporting eyewitness accounts claiming Statement that the Donbass militia had just shot down Use_firearm a Ukrainian An-26 military plane with a missile .