“All the data we have today indicates that we are dealing with a deliberate, well-thought-out crime,” he emphasized.
Polyansky added that the Ukrainian authorities were well aware of the route and method of transporting military personnel to the place of the pre-agreed exchange.
Earlier, the press secretary of the Russian president, Dmitry Peskov, said that Russia promptly informed Ukraine about the transportation of Ukrainian prisoners of war by an Il-76 military transport aircraft, which was shot down in the Belgorod region.
According to Russia's permanent representative to the OSCE, Alexander Lukashevich, Moscow expects that the shooting down of an Il-76 aircraft by the Ukrainian military in the Belgorod region will receive international condemnation, including at the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.