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| Russian Investigative Committee collected evidence of the involvement of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the attack on the Il-76 |
| 2024-06-26 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] Investigators have collected evidence that Ukrainian troops were involved in the terrorist attack on the Il-76 military transport aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces with captured Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers on board, which was shot down in January near Belgorod. This was announced on June 25 by the official representative of the Investigative Committee of Russia Svetlana Petrenko. “As part of the criminal case of a terrorist attack on a Russian IL-76 aircraft in the Belgorod region, a body of evidence was collected confirming the involvement of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in this crime,” she said. As Petrenko noted, fragments of hulls and mechanisms marked Patriot were found at the Il-76 crash site, and the results of explosive examinations confirmed that the found fragments were parts of two guided missiles of the US-made Patriot anti-aircraft missile system. The official representative of the Investigative Committee clarified that investigators have information about which units of the Ukrainian troops are armed with American air defense systems. “Taking this into account, in cooperation with the Russian Ministry of Defense, work continues to identify specific officials involved in organizing this terrorist act for their subsequent prosecution,” she added. As Regnum reported, on January 24, an Il-76 plane crashed near the village of Yablonovo in the Korochansky district of the Belgorod region. There were 74 people on board, including 65 captured Ukrainian soldiers who were being taken to Belgorod for exchange. None of those on board survived. The Ministry of Defense later reported that the plane was shot down by a Ukrainian anti-aircraft missile system from the territory of the Kharkov region. The defense department emphasized that Kiev knew very well about the transport of prisoners and still made such a decision in order to blame Russia for it. In mid-March, President Vladimir Putin instructed the Investigative Committee to publish the results of the investigation into the causes of the death of the Il-76 plane with Ukrainian prisoners in the Belgorod region by July 1. |
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