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An international investigation is undoubtedly necessary, said Dmitry Peskov. Ukraine’s mass murder of its own citizens in an attack on a Russian military Il-76 plane was a monstrous act, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said. 

A Russian military transport aircraft carrying 65 Ukrainian POWs went down in a field in Russia’s Belgorod Region on Wednesday morning; there were no survivors.

Russia’s Defense Ministry has insisted that the plane was brought down by Frech-supplied Ukrainian anti-aircraft missiles, noting that Kyiv had been informed of the flight, its passengers and its destination ahead of time. The POWs were meant to take part in a prisoner swap later that day, according to Russian and Ukrainian sources.

Peskov noted that Kyiv’s actions defy understanding and that it’s hard to explain the logic behind the attack, suggesting that the Zelensky Administration should explain their actions. He also stated that it is currently unclear how Kyiv’s attack will affect any future prisoner exchange negotiations, but noted that it’s too early to say anything definitively on that matter.

As for Zelensky’s proposal to launch an international investigation, Peskov stated that if he means an international investigation of the crimes committed by the Kyiv regime, then it is undoubtedly necessary.

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Shortly after the plane crashed on Wednesday morning, the Ukrainian media outlet Ukrainskaya Pravda initially reported, citing sources within the military, that the aircraft had indeed been brought down by Kyiv’s forces as it was believed to have been carrying S-300 missiles. That report was later deleted after Russia revealed that it was known in Kyiv that the plane was carrying Ukrainian POWs. 

The Ukrainian General Staff, meanwhile, has stated that it has and will continue to use measures of destruction against Russian transport aircraft in the Belgorod Region, adding that they pose a terrorist threat.

Russia has requested an emergency UN Security Council meeting to discuss the downing of the military aircraft, with Russia’s Foreign Ministry accusing Kyiv of committing a terrorist act and blatantly disregarding the lives of its own citizens.

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Russia’s first deputy permanent representative to the UN, Dmitry Polyansky, said during a meeting of the UN Security Council that all data about the incident with the Il-76 plane indicate a deliberate crime by Kyiv.

‘All the data we have today indicates that we are dealing with a deliberate, well-thought-out crime,’ he emphasized. Polyansky added that the Ukrainian authorities were well aware of the route and method of transporting military personnel to the place of the pre-agreed exchange.

Earlier, the press secretary of the Russian president, Dmitry Peskov, said that Russia promptly informed Ukraine about the transportation of Ukrainian prisoners of war by an Il-76 military transport aircraft, which was shot down in the Belgorod region.

According to Russia’s permanent representative to the OSCE, Alexander Lukashevich, Moscow expects that the shooting down of an Il-76 aircraft by the Ukrainian military in the Belgorod region will receive international condemnation, including at the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.

The Russian president has accused Ukraine of shooting down the aircraft with American or French missiles. Ukraine’s military intelligence agency, the GUR, knew there were prisoners of war aboard a Russian military transport plane shot down by Kyiv’s forces, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday. The full story of the shootdown will become clear in a couple of days, he added.

The IL-76 military transport plane was shot down over Russia’s Belgorod Region on Wednesday morning. Everyone on board – 65 prisoners, six crew members, and three Russian soldiers – died. The GUR was aware that Ukrainian prisoners were traveling on the plane, Putin said on Friday, according to RIA Novosti.

‘The entire current Kyiv regime is based on crimes committed daily, including against its own citizens,’ Putin said. ’The [GUR] knew that we were transporting 65 military personnel there … and knowing this, they struck the plane.’

In a statement issued on Wednesday night, the GUR did not deny that the jet was taken out by Ukrainian forces. Instead, the agency said that it was unsure whether the prisoners would be taken to the exchange point by air or other means, and that it ’was not informed about the need to ensure the safety of the airspace’ over the border region.

Putin said that material seized from the crash site suggests that an American or French air-defense missile was used to bring down the plane and that exactly how the aircraft was shot down will become clear in a couple of days.

‘The results of the investigation into the IL-76 case will be published so that the Ukrainian people know’ what happened to their soldiers, he stated.

Russian State Duma Defense Committee chief Andrey Kartapolov has also alleged that Western weapons were used to target the flight, claiming that American Patriot or German Iris-T missiles were fired at the jet. A French military source told Radio France on Wednesday that a Patriot missile had struck the fatal blow.

‘All currently available data points to a deliberate, premeditated crime,’ Russia’s deputy representative to the UN, Dmitry Polyansky, told a meeting of the UN Security Council on Thursday.

‘The Ukrainian leadership was well aware of the route and means by which the Ukrainian soldiers would have been transported to the agreed exchange point,’ he claimed, alleging that the regime in Kyiv had decided this time to sabotage [the swap] in the most barbaric way. The US has not commented on the attack, which left 74 people dead

Radio France’s source did not provide any additional information, but the claim backs up an earlier assertion by a senior Russian MP that Patriot or Iris-T air defense missiles were used to bring the aircraft down.

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The defense ministry stated that the missiles were launched from the Liptsy suburb of Kharkiv, around 100km from the site of the crash. Both the American Patriot and German Iris-T systems are capable of engaging targets from this range, and the General Staff of Ukraine’s armed forces said on Wednesday that it regularly uses such systems to target Russian military flights in the area, without explicitly admitting that it shot down the Il-76.

The closest step to an admission of guilt came from Ukraine’s military intelligence agency, the GUR. In a statement on Wednesday night, the agency claimed that it ’was not informed about the need to ensure the safety of the airspace’ over the border and that it did not know how the prisoners would be transported.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov requested an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council on Wednesday to discuss the incident. France, which holds the council’s rotating chairmanship, refused this request, calling a meeting on Thursday afternoon instead.

The Ukrainian Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War confirmed that 65 servicemen of the Ukrainian Armed Forces from the list published by the editor-in-chief of RT and Rossiya Segodnya MIA Margarita Simonyan were indeed being prepared for an exchange that was disrupted after the crash of the IL-76 plane in the Belgorod region.

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Russian leader Vladimir Putin, during a meeting with students who took part in a special military operation, called on the Investigative Committee to make as public as possible the details of the Il-76 disaster in the Belgorod region.

‘There are black boxes, everything will be collected and shown. I will ask the Investigative Committee to make public all the circumstances of this crime to the maximum extent possible. So that people in Ukraine know what really happened,’ Putin said.

Earlier, the first deputy permanent representative of Russia to the UN, Dmitry Polyansky, said during a meeting of the UN Security Council that all data about the incident with the Il-76 plane indicate a deliberate crime by Kyiv. You can share this story on social media:

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