ER Editor: There doesn’t seem to be too much doubt that it’s Ukraine which downed one plane of two in the air, both participating in an announced prisoner swap, with 65 of its own captured military on board (plus 9 Russians).
Some tweets — #IL-76
A video in this tweet shows several seconds around the crash —
🇺🇦🇷🇺‼️🚨 Russian plane carrying 80 Ukranian PoWs for exchange was shot down.
RBK: The Il-76 was “shot down by three Patriot or IRIS-T missiles”
It was followed by another Il-76 with 80 Ukrainian Armed Forces prisoners on board, it was turned around, said the head of the Duma… pic.twitter.com/dI5vaf5jKa
— Lord Bebo (@MyLordBebo) January 24, 2024
#IL76 crash site.
The wreckage of the fuselage shows a large number of entry holes from the damaging elements of the anti-aircraft missile. pic.twitter.com/hf7iP2XWTE
— Arthur Morgan (@ArthurM40330824) January 24, 2024
Ukrainian prisoner Konstantin Danilchenko, who was on board the downed Il-76, said in summer of 2022, that Ukrainian Armed Forces treat soldiers like meat.
A video with Danilchenko was published by the Russian Ministry of Defense. The prisoner said that the command is not… pic.twitter.com/joaojbJZqX
— Mats Nilsson (@mazzenilsson) January 24, 2024
RT reports from Belgorod providing the latest details on the IL-76 destruction pic.twitter.com/pDUKeJQRA4
— Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil (@ivan_8848) January 24, 2024
❗️State Duma Deputy Dmitry Belik, after the IL-76 disaster, said that it was time to begin the procedure for recognizing Ukraine as a terrorist state.
Shared by: @slr_coin pic.twitter.com/sH2ZXbg28d
— Zlatti71 (@djuric_zlatko) January 24, 2024
On board the Il-76 shot down over Belgorod were at least 12 representatives of the banned Azov national battalion. They and 53 other soldiers and officers were taken for exchange.
According to Mash, some of the captured Ukrainian Armed Forces were dead or seriously injured even… pic.twitter.com/3cgBUM6wAu
— Lord Bebo (@MyLordBebo) January 24, 2024
🇫🇷⚔️🇷🇺They are trying to buy time: France rejected Russia’s request to hold a UN Security Council meeting on the downed Il-76 on January 24 – Russian permanent mission to the UN
▪️The French presidency chose the path of abuse of its powers as Chairman of the Security Council in…— Zlatti71 (@djuric_zlatko) January 25, 2024
Almost certain U.S. Intel knows how the Russian IL-76 carrying 65 Ukrainian POWs went down today. Will Blinken lie and blame Russia or “pro-Russian separatists”, aping John Kerry on MH17 shoot-down in 2014? Kerry claimed then he had imagery and trajectory info, but his dog ate it
— Ray McGovern (@raymcgovern) January 25, 2024
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IL-76 crash: What we know so far
A military aircraft carrying 65 Ukrainian POWs fell to the ground in Russia’s Belgorod Region, killing all passengers on board
RT
A Russian IL-76 heavy transport plane was carrying 65 captured Ukrainian military personnel when it crashed in Belgorod Region some 90km (55 miles) from the Ukrainian border. The Russian Defense Ministry has claimed that the aircraft was brought down by Kiev’s forces.
Here is what we know so far about what happened.
The plane crash
Ukrainian media reports
Kiev’s intelligence
Russia’s reaction
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