An IL-76 aircraft has crashed in the Korocha district of Russia’s Belgorod Oblast. The governor of the oblast has reported an “incident”, and an investigation team and the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation are currently working at the scene.
Source: Russian local Telegram channels; Vyacheslav Gladkov, the governor of Belgorod Oblast; Ukrainska Pravda’s sources in the Armed Forces of Ukraine
Quote from Gladkov: “The incident happened in Korocha district. An investigative team and the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia are currently working at the scene. I changed my work schedule and am on my way there. All of the details will be shared later.”
Details: Local news outlets reported that the downed plane was likely an IL-76 transport aircraft.
Ukrainska Pravda’s sources in the Armed Forces confirmed the downing of the aircraft, saying that “it was their job”. Sources in the General Staff stated the plane was carrying S-300 anti-aircraft missiles.
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/01/24/7438639/
There are a lot of media stories claiming that the plane was carrying 65 Ukrainian POW’s for exchange. This source was the russian ministry of defence. Either Ukraine have fucked up, or the orcs are lying as usual. Somehow I don’t see the orcs wasting precious plane fuel transporting Ukrainian POW’s.
Wouldn’t the ruskies request for safe skies if they were planning to fly pow’s to Belgorod for exchange before entering that area?
Yeah. Something not quite right about this. One russian official even claimed that the plane was brought down by 3 missiles, that was 5 minutes after the plane crashed.
They probably would, if they played with open cards, Mike. That they didn’t announce this transfer points toward the deliberate setting of a trap. That this happened shortly after the embarassing shoot down of the A-50 gotta raise suspicion.
Not a “fuck up”, imho (such military transport planes are legitimate targets), but possibly a deliberate trap by Russia. And who knows if the alleged 65 Ukrainian POWs had been alive at all? This may be a combination of a revanche for the shoot down of the A-50 and a cover-up of a Russian war crime. Anyway, we can’t trust any statements by the Mafia rehime, but always need independent fact checking.
It’s a huge plane for just 65 POW’s. At full capacity it can carry 225 fully equipped soldiers. The plane could have been carrying missiles and POW’s, but I know we’ll never get the truth from the orcs.
There are no dozens of bodies visible at the crashsite,:local media.
Those S300 missiles turned into Ukrainian POW’s as the plane crashed.
Certainly takes some time to transport the bodies of Ukrainian soldiers killed in Rusian POW camps there, Veth.
The plane was yesterday in Iran. Unconfirmed.
Already the quora moskali shills are trying to push the narrative of Ukraine murdering its own POWs.
It’s not murder if the orcs never informed Ukraine that POW’s were onboard.