Ukraine shot down passenger plane with western-made missile

 

Il76 with 65 Ukrainian Prisoners being repatriated,

was shot down by Ukraine with Western missile

Anneke de Laaf

So it was Kiev, as initially stated by Ukrainian media. Now the question is, was it American or French? 🤔

MOSCOW, January 31 – RIA Novosti. An examination of the destructive elements in the skin of the Il-76 preliminary confirms that the plane was shot down by a Western-made anti-aircraft missile system, a representative of the emergency services told RIA Novosti.

“A preliminary examination of the destructive elements found on the plane shows that the missile belongs to a Western-made air defense system,” the agency’s interlocutor said.

However, he did not specify other details.

On January 24 , the Ukrainian Armed Forces shot down a Russian military transport aircraft Il-76 over the Belgorod region , in which 65 Ukrainian prisoners were being transported for exchange. All of them, as well as three accompanying officers of the Russian Armed Forces and six crew members died.

President Vladimir Putin called the incident a crime of Kyiv against its own citizens. According to him, the Ukrainian side knew that there were Ukrainian Armed Forces prisoners of war on board the Il-76, and nevertheless struck - either through negligence or on purpose. Judging by the evidence, the plane was shot down by an air defense system made in France or the USA , the head of state specified.

Ukrainian media first wrote that the Il-76 was shot down by the Ukrainian Armed Forces, but after information about prisoners on board appeared, they removed this information from their websites. Later, Kyiv indirectly admitted that it shot down the plane: the Main Intelligence Directorate complained that Russia allegedly did not notify about its flight. In addition, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, after reports of a hit on the aircraft, stated that it would continue to take measures to destroy delivery vehicles in the Belgorod-Kharkov direction.

Officially, Ukraine declares the need for an international investigation, but unofficially the local media launched a thesis that the Il-76 allegedly carried missiles for the S-300 systems. Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov noted that an international investigation is “definitely necessary” if it focuses on the crimes of the Kiev regime.

In turn, the Foreign Ministry emphasized that the crash of the Il-76 “raises a big question about the possibilities of at least some kind of agreement” with Kiev .