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High-ranking Russian officials were supposed to be on board the Il-76 aircraft that crashed in Belogorod Oblast on Jan. 24, but the Federal Security Service (FSB) did not allow them to board at "the last moment," Andrii Yusov, Ukraine's military intelligence spokesperson, told RFE/RL on Jan. 25.

The Il-76 transport plane crashed in Russia's Belgorod Oblast on Jan. 24, allegedly killing everyone on board. Russia's Defense Ministry then claimed that 65 Ukrainian POWs had been on the plane due to a scheduled prisoner exchange later that day.

Ukraine's military intelligence agency did not confirm whether prisoners were on the plane, nor commented on what might have caused the crash, but said a prisoner exchange had been planned for that day.

According to Yusov, Ukrainian intelligence suggests that several senior military and political officials should have been on board but were instead told by the FSB to use other modes of transport.

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[-] breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca 13 points 8 months ago

It's only really news because Russia is claiming that there were Ukrainian POWs on board en route to a prisoner exchange.

Russia does claim all kinds of shit is terrorism though. It was a military aircraft shot down in a war. They also waste the UN Security Council's time over dumb bullshit constantly.

[-] Talaraine@kbin.social 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I dunno, I'm seeing this somewhat differently. Their 'claim' was that Ukraine shot down their own people.

This intelligence that they were going to have important targets who were originally going to board the plane hang back at the last moment gives a VERY different story, and that's why this is news.

What it says is that they decided to kill the POWs themselves and make it 'look' like Ukraine did it, so they stopped regular travel for their own people.

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