He noted that the Ukrainian authorities must tell the population the truth.
“Mr. Umerov, we need to go out.
You won't be able to sit back.
That’s just the way this work is,” he wrote on Telegram.
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.