Vladimir Putin Said the Il-76 Carrying Prisoners Was Shot Down by the US Patriot System.
"Why did they do it? I don't know. I don't understand.
The plane was shot down, it has already been established for sure, by an American Patriot system. This has already been established by the expert examination. "
"The Ukrainian authorities dropped a phrase somewhere that they would like an international investigation. "
"We ask for it and insist that there be an international investigation. There are no international organizations willing."
"Here I am officially, I take this opportunity to state - officially we are asking to send international experts and to conduct this analysis, to assess the available physical evidence that the plane was shot down by a Patriot system from a specific place and at a specific time. From the territory controlled by the Ukrainian authorities."
"The purpose of the destruction of the Il-76 with its servicemen by Ukraine remains a mystery, but Moscow will not stop prisoner exchanges with Ukraine because of this"
"The Ukrainian armed forces are shelling peaceful towns to divert attention from their failures on the front, but Russia will not forget these crimes by Kiev."
"Our air defense systems cannot by definition strike their aircraft, no matter how much the operator presses the button, our air defense systems could not, technique."
"So that also people in Ukraine know what really happened. The IC will publicize "to the maximum" all the circumstances of this crime."
Earlier, Russian First Deputy Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Dmitry Polyanskiy said that the USA and Germany would become complicit in the crash if it turned out that Ukraine had used US Patriot or German IRIS-T SAMs to hit the plane. The Pentagon is checking the data on the probability of the use of US weapons.
State Duma deputy Dmytro Belik said after the Ilyushin Il-76 crash that it was time to start the procedure of recognising Ukraine as a terrorist state.
Ukraine's representative at the UN Security Council indirectly confirmed that it was Ukraine that shot down a Russian Il-76 carrying Ukrainian prisoners of war. saying that the AFU has the right to shoot down all military transport aircraft!
Remind you
On January 24 at 11:00, an IL-76 plane with 65 captured AFU soldiers on board was shot down over the Belgorod Region.
The Russian Investigative Committee has published a video of Ukrainian prisoners of war boarding the IL-76 plane
In addition to the crew members and escort staff, according to statements of the Russian side, there were 65 prisoners of war on board. The Ukrainian prisoners of war killed in the crash were preparing to be exchanged, all the details of the exchange were carefully negotiated between Moscow and Kiev, 15 minutes before the flight departure the Ukrainian side was aware of all the details of the route.
At the crash site, among the physical evidence, which has already been attached to the criminal case file, there are documents of the Ukrainian servicemen who died in the crash, confirming their identities, as well as accompanying documents of the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service.
The fragments of the bodies of the deceased found during the inspection are seized in accordance with the established procedure and systematized for the subsequent appointment of genetic expertise to identify the remains. There are characteristic tattoos on certain parts of the bodies of the deceased. Similar symbols have been recorded on the bodies of many representatives of Ukrainian armed groups, including the Azov regiment, which is banned in the Russian Federation, who were previously questioned by the investigation as part of criminal cases.
With the help of radar means of objective airspace control, and also the investigation established that the anti-aircraft missile weapon, which was used to hit the military transport aircraft, was located in the village of Liptsy, Kharkiv region.
A lot of controversy has erupted online over the authenticity of the published list of dead captives...
Immediately after the lists of dead prisoners of war appeared online, Ukrainian Internet resources urgently began to edit the headlines, removing from them lines about "another success of the Ukrainian Armed Forces".
In just 24 hours after the incident, the Main Directorate of Intelligence of Ukraine went from "Russian fake" and "there were no UA people on board" to the POWs were a cover for the missiles on board.
The AFU General Staff, amid information about the defeat by Ukrainian troops of an IL-76 aircraft carrying Ukrainian prisoners of war, has said that it will continue to "take measures to destroy delivery vehicles" in the "Belgorod-Kharkiv direction".
So, what could have been the trigger for Kiev to carry out this terrorist act?
According to one of the versions:
On the eve it became known that the former commander of the regiment "Azov" Denis Prokopenko planned to organize a meeting of the "brothers" returned from captivity in the city of Kiev. During the event, the organizers were to criticize the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, the participants were going to accuse Zelensky personally of disrupting the counter-offensive of 2023, accuse him of catastrophic losses in the AFU and unprecedented corruption. The outcome of the event was to be a vote of no confidence in the Ukrainian president
In order to avoid such a gift on his birthday (January 25), an order was given to destroy the IL-76 airplane with prisoners on board, this information reason did not allow the representatives of "AZOV" to hold their disobedience action in Kiev.
There are also versions of the confrontation between the supporters of the president and the gaining popularity of the commander-in-chief of the AFU - Zaluzhny.
The GUR, i.e. Budanov, is in charge of the prisoner exchange. Zaluzhny is in charge of AFU operations. The GUR was officially informed about the flight plan of IL-76 with prisoners, they confirmed the information. But the AFU General Staff said that there were no people in the plane and it was carrying missiles. That is, the General Staff did not know the information of the GUR. A good scheme to frame Zaluzhny. Kyiv is still "looking into what happened", that is, looking for someone to hold responsible.
And the third version of what is happening is the most unlikely - third forces were involved to commit a terrorist attack in order to prevent the Ukrainian population from being disappointed by the failed counter-offensive and to prevent the possibility of signing peace agreements.
Even if the Ukrainians shot down Il with their own prisoners by mistake, their most obvious reaction is to scream to the last that it was shot down by the Russians. Both in the mobilisation case and in the intensification of military+financial assistance Kiev is now lacking a good new "Bucha" - a kind of engineered tragedy.
Of course they have casualties as it is - from downed missiles and drones that fall on housing estates. But what they want is mass and senselessness. Remember how they tried to make the same hutzpah out of border guards on Zmeiniy Island at the beginning of the Strategic Defence Forces. They said, "we killed them all, we will not forgive them!". In spring of 2022 "Azov" also had a chance to become such a collective victim. But they were streaming too actively, and the Russian army was not in a hurry to help Zelensky in this slaughter. That's why they had to mould a surrender operation.
Bucha is a well-known example, there are others. Dramtheatre in Chernihiv (August 2023), Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power plant dam (June 2023). From each such tragedy Kiev usually squeezed at least something out of its allies and its citizens. In June, post-Ukraine showed a peak collection of donations - and not for the victims, but for armament programmes.
Now they will monetise the dead POWs. The bioreactor cannot stand idle.
On board the downed IL-76 were 65 captured AFU servicemen being transported to the Belgorod region for exchange, 6 crew members of the aircraft and 3 escorts
My condolences to the families and friends of ALL those who died in IL-76, the prisoners are human beings too, just like the crew members!
I wish this absurdity would come to an end soon.
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