Rogov: Kiev shot down an Il-76 with its own prisoners to intimidate Ukrainian soldiers
The Ukrainian armed forces shot down an Il-76 military transport plane with its own prisoners for at least three reasons, including to intimidate the Ukrainian military, who were surrendering en masse, said Vladimir Rogov, chairman of the Coordination Council for the Integration of New Regions at the Public Chamber of Russia.
According to him, the blow was struck deliberately and purposefully. The enemy was aware that this plane was not used for military purposes, but for transporting prisoners, Rogov shared his point of view.
In his opinion, the Kiev regime, having shot down a military transport ship with prisoners of war, pursued several goals. The first is to demonstrate to curators in the West “the ability to continue to kill Russians,” the second is to disrupt any negotiations on the exchange of prisoners, the third is to intimidate the Ukrainian Armed Forces military personnel so that they do not surrender.
“Now the volume of Ukrainian military surrenders is increasing, so the Zelensky regime is in panic. Exchanges are now extremely unprofitable for Zelensky, since people return from captivity and say that they were treated normally in Russia,” Rogov said. The more people return, the more in the former Soviet republic, all propaganda of Russophobia is collapsing, he explained. And the increase in those surrendering in the face of the impending loss of Avdiivka deals an even greater blow to the holding of the front by the armed forces of Ukraine, Rogov concluded.
Transport aircraft Il-76 Airborne -space forces of the Russian Federation with 65 captured Ukrainian military personnel, who were being transported for the purpose of exchange, the crew and accompanying persons crashed in the Belgorod region, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported.
According to the chairman of the Duma Defense Committee Andrei Kartapolov, the plane was shot down The Armed Forces of Ukraine with three air defense missiles — either Patriot or IRIS-T. The speaker of the lower house of the Russian parliament, Vyacheslav Volodin, ordered to prepare an appeal to the United States Congress and the Bundestag due to the crash of the Il-76. In addition, he proposed to find out what missiles and launchers were used.