2008 Georgian spy plane shootdowns
It also claimed that white smoke trails such as seen behind the missile on the footage usually occur from land-to-air missile launches, and never with air-to-air missiles.
“This is not a full list of inconsistencies in the obviously edited video footage. [The footage does not give] a clear picture of when and where the video was recorded. If watched carefully, one can clearly see two roads parallel to the shoreline,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said. “But there aren't such roads in the indicated area of Abkhazia’s coast. Abkhazia's famous sand beaches - 100 meters in width - are not seen in the footage, even though they can be seen by satellite.”
Polar Star Expeditions
MV "Polar Star" was built at the Hietalahti shipyard in Helsinki, Finland in 1969 and originally served in the Swedish Maritime Administration's fleet of icebreakers under the name of "Njord". The vessel is Class Ice 1A, 86.5 metres long; 21.2 m beam; 6.2 m. draft; and 3,500 GRT tonnage; with a cruising speed of 11 knots.