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The Ukrainian Armed Forces, with the help of Patriot air defense, shot down an Il transport plane in the Belgorod region, where captured Ukrainian soldiers were flying for exchange. At first, the idiots from the telegram dumps of the Office of the President rejoiced, then they received a “hat” and all of them declared that it was carrying ammunition. According to our data, the new training manual for dispersal from Bankova includes the narrative that the Russians themselves shot down Il in order to blame Kyiv. Also, the Ukrainian media are urgently cleaning up all their joy from the downed plane. How now they will begin to brush it aside and push away responsibility. Although everyone knew about today’s exchange in the Belgorod region. Rezident on TG

The Armed Forces of Ukraine shot down an Il-76 aircraft over Belgorod.

The IL-76 military aircraft was transporting 65 Ukrainian POW for exchange with Russian POW, along with 6 crew members and 3 escorts.

The captured Ukrainian servicemen were being transported to the Belgorod region for exchange.

Another Il-76 carrying 80 Ukrainian prisoners of war turned back, said the head of the Duma Defense Committee Andrei Kartapolov.

“The Ukrainian leadership was well aware of the impending exchange and was informed of how the prisoners would be delivered,” he said during a speech in the State Duma

After the crash of the IL-76 in the Belgorod region, prisoner exchanges between the Russian Federation and Ukraine will apparently be put on pause.

https://nitter.net/vicktop55/status/1750106895887765811

  • cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml
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    8 months ago

    Yeah this does have a bit of a Hannibal directive vibe to it. But i think it's more likely that this was yet another Ukrainian fuck-up.

    I mean i wouldn't put it past them to decide that trading the lives of 60 conscripts for one Russian transport plane plus crew was worth it. Problem is they lost more than just these POWs, they also lost all of the POWs that they would have gotten back in future exchanges that are now not going to happen anymore seeing as Ukraine can't even be trusted to abide by promises to guarantee the prisoners' safe transport.