In a video address to court recorded October 22, indicted suspect Pulatov claims he said things on the phone shortly after the MH17 shoot-down that were "meant to mislead the enemy". Funny because there's no reason to mislead the enemy that you shot down a commercial airliner. 
"Whenever we said nonsense like "we have a BUK" that was meant to mislead the enemy that we have more superiority than we did" << ouch. Borat-level cringeworthy.
Hard to watch his lawyer's face as she has to pretend she buys it.
When played back a tape where he and Dubinsky are looking for a missing soldier [of the BUK crew] and they refer to the Fourchette supermarket where the BUK was in fact parked, he says his hearing is not too good and he thinks it was some trophy (really cringeworthy lie)
In a previously unpublished call, Pulatov explains on 16 July that the existing anti-aircraft units at Snezhnoe have been destroyed by Ukrainian air raids on that day, and they urgently need a "long-range anti-aircraft machine"
His defense? "80% of everything in this [15 minute, very detailed status-update call] is disinformation nonsense aimed to mislead the enemy to send an airplane while they think we have no air-defense".
"but there is a tiny part of the conversation that is not deceptive but contains truth...but the rest is lies" << how would the other party know what is what?
In this unpublished call on 17 July 2014, Pulatov gets a report that "that blood-brother of yours you brought shot down a Ukrainian SU... just after that SU shot down the commercial airliner" << Here Pulatov says he can't remember who calls him and what they talk about....
(note that Pulatov has in fact admitted all the calls are authentic; he just comes up with ever more ridiculous explanations of what was in fact meant by phrases that had pretty straightforward meaning)
To the question "Did you get any commands on that day that related to a BUK", Pulatov thought for about 30 seconds, then says "can't remember, I kind of remember there may have be a deception conversation where we may have mentioned a BUK"
Just after 16:20 on 17.07.2014 Pulatov says he heard something that sounded like a Strela 10 anti-aircraft weapon, and went to see why it was shot up, and then he heard a civilian airline had fallen, and went to the crash site instead.
He claims he did not heard a BUK but certainly a Strela 10. "The launch of Strela 10 sounds and looks different than a BUK". He says the sound came approximately from the JIT-appointed launch site, about 300 m from him, 2 km northwest of Marynovka
Explanation: all these innovations re: Strela 10 are necessary to substantiate the (new) conspiracy version that a Ukrainian SU shot down MH17, but then for some reason it flew downwards and low enough for a non-BUK (Strela 10) to hit it..but that it still flew away to Ukraine.
It's very hard to retrofit your lies to evidence presented to you sequentially; thus by now Pulatov's version of events on 17 July looks like spaghetti.
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