UN, January 26 Western sponsors of the Kiev regime in full bear responsibility for his crimes, said First Deputy Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN Dmitry Polyansky at a UN Security Council meeting convened by Moscow in connection with the downing of the Il-76.
“Western sponsors of the criminal Kyiv regime bear full responsibility for its crimes.” — said Polyansky.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine on January 24 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 to take place later that day. 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.
State Duma Speaker 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.
Ukraine indirectly admitted that it shot down an Il-76: the Main Intelligence Directorate complained that Russia allegedly did not notify “the need to ensure airspace security” near Belgorod at that time. Officially, Kyiv talks about the need for an international investigation, unofficially, the media has launched a thesis that the Il-76 was carrying missiles for the S-300. Press Secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov said that an international investigation is “definitely necessary” if it focuses on the crimes of the Kyiv regime.