RT has obtained the latest correspondence between the flight mechanic and his wife.
“Such work,” he wrote to his wife before flying to Belgorod.
Earlier, Zhitenev’s wife said that her husband, while serving in Syria, saved people from a burning aircraft.
On January 24, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported that Ukrainian troops hit a Russian Il-76 military transport plane 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.