According to the Strana.ua publication, the SBU opened criminal proceedings under the article of the Criminal Code of Ukraine on “violation of the laws and customs of war.”
Also, the Ukrainian special service claims that they are clarifying all the circumstances of the fall of the Il-76.
On January 24, the Russian Ministry of Defense stated that Ukrainian military personnel 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.
Ukrainian media previously began to massively delete materials that an Il-76 that crashed in the Belgorod region with Ukrainian prisoners of war was shot down by Ukrainian air defense forces.
For example, earlier the Ukrayinska Pravda publication reported that the Ukrainian Armed Forces shot down a Russian Il-76 near Belgorod and that it allegedly transported missiles to the S-300 complexes.
After the Russian Ministry of Defense reported that the plane was transporting 65 captured military personnel of the Ukrainian Armed Forces for exchange, the media changed the text of the news.