Ministry says aircraft that went down in border region of Belgorod was carrying prisoners who were to be swapped

A Russian military transport plane has crashed in the border region of Belgorod, according to Russia’s defence ministry.

The ministry said the aircraft was carrying 65 Ukrainian PoWs who were to be swapped. The ministry added that onboard the Ilyushin Il-76 were also six crew and three other people.

The Belgorod regional governor, Vyacheslav Gladkov, said all 74 people onboard had died.

  • sun_is_ra@sh.itjust.works
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    10 months ago

    These links prove what exactly? Aside from assassination of Wagner leader, the other planes were not Russian. I don’t know why people compare a assassination of a powerful military figure with murdering some helpless prisoners

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      10 months ago

      It’s a weird take for sure. I’m not endorsing killing of POWs, but this would be the dumbest way to kill a bunch of captives. If they wanted them dead, then literally doing nothing would work.

      Now they are out political bargaining chips and a plane.

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        10 months ago

        You know what else is dumb? Shooting down a plane full of civilians from another country and yet they did that too.

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      10 months ago

      That Russia is capable and willing to (try) to shoot down anything they want in the sky. For whatever reason. What was the good, solid, well thought out reason for shooting down the commercial jet with hundreds of civilians on it, in your opinion?