This was stated by the White House National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby.
“We have seen the reports, but are unable to confirm their authenticity.
We are doing everything possible to get more clarity and more information on this issue,” RIA Novosti quotes him as saying.
The Russian Ministry of Defense previously stated that Ukrainian troops hit a Russian Il-76 military transport aircraft with captured Ukrainian Armed Forces military personnel over the Belgorod region using an anti-aircraft missile system.
On board were six crew members, 65 military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine for the exchange and three Russian military personnel accompanying them.
They all died.
The editor-in-chief of RT and MIA Rossiya Segodnya, Margarita Simonyan, published a list of Ukrainian prisoners of war who were on board the crashed Il-76.
Zelensky’s office refrained from commenting on the downed Il-76 Ukrainian Armed Forces.