“The on-board voice recorder and the device for recording flight parameters were delivered for decoding to a research institute specializing in this topic,” RIA Novosti quotes the words of a representative of the emergency services.

He added that the black boxes are in a condition suitable for decryption.

On January 25, the Investigative Committee opened a criminal case for a terrorist attack following the crash of an Il-76 plane, which was shot down by the Ukrainian military in the Belgorod region.

The Russian Ministry of Defense stated that Ukrainian troops hit a Russian Il-76 military transport aircraft with captured Ukrainian Armed Forces military personnel 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.