“We will continue to work, no matter how difficult it may be... Ukraine is interested in returning its defenders.
We can and will extradite Russian prisoners,” 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 Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine reported that they did not know who was on board.
The editor-in-chief of RT and MIA Rossiya Segodnya, Margarita Simonyan, published a list of Ukrainian prisoners of war who were in the Il-76.