“On the morning of January 24, the Kiev regime committed another terrorist attack, as a result of which in the area of the village.
Yablonovo, Korochansky district, Belgorod region, an Il-76 aircraft of the Russian military transport aviation was shot down,” the message says.
It is noted that “there is another atrocity of Zelensky’s criminal clique.”
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.
An RT correspondent showed footage from the scene.