Officials in Ukraine say Russia has provided no credible evidence to back its claims that their own forces shot down a military transport plane carrying Ukrainian prisoners of war who were to be swapped for Russian POWs.

“We currently don’t have evidence that there could have been that many people onboard the aircraft. Russian propaganda’s claim that the IL-76 aircraft was transporting 65 Ukrainian POWs (heading) for a prisoner swap continues to raise a lot of questions,” Budanov said.

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  • roastedDeflatorOP
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    310 months ago

    Thanks for all these. Could you add in a comment some links for the above? I would really like to take a deeper dive into this analysis.

    Also, I had the impression this type of airplane is commonly used in Russia. According to what you say, it doesn’t seem their use is as widespread as I initially though. If you have this link as well I would totally appreciate taking a look at it.