MOSCOW, January 24 Ukraine must bear responsibility for the downed In the Belgorod region, an Il-76 aircraft must be responded to by striking the centers where “such vile” decisions are made, said the governor of the Zaporozhye region, Evgeniy Balitsky.
«Firstly, I believe that there should not be a single quiet place on the territory of Ukraine for the Zelensky clique. We must be responsible for their immoral, cruel actions with attacks on decision-making centers, attacks on the presidential administration, the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, «The Verkhovna Rada and at all sites where decisions are made on such vile, base acts. If they are already ready to sacrifice their own people in order to achieve some kind of PR or to please their Western curators,» Balitsky said.
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On Wednesday, the Ukrainian Armed Forces shot down an Il-76 military transport plane over the Belgorod region , which was carrying 65 Ukrainian prisoners for exchange. All prisoners on board, as well as six crew members and three accompanying persons died — a total of 74 people.
According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, Kyiv was well aware of the impending transportation of prisoners for exchange, which was supposed to take place later on Wednesday (whether it will take place in any format, there is no data yet). The Russian Foreign Ministry said that the crash of the Il-76 “raises a big question about the possibility of at least some kind of agreement” with Kiev.
Speaker of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin instructed to prepare an appeal to the US Congress and the Bundestag — it is the States and Germany that supply Ukraine with anti-aircraft missile systems (Patriot and Iris-T). Ukrainian media, meanwhile, first wrote that the Il-76 was shot down by the Ukrainian Armed Forces, but then deleted the data from the sites.