RIA Novosti reports about this.
According to Leonkov, the Patriot air defense system operated without a detection radar, and information about the target was received at the complex’s control center through the Link-16 data transmission system.
“Therefore, the complex itself was not detected before launch, since it did not emit probing signals,” the analyst said.
At the same time, he emphasized that these data indicate that “the operation to destroy the plane with prisoners was planned by the Western side.”
Earlier, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, said that the West does not need the truth about the crash of the Il-76 in the Belgorod region.
Also, the Russian leader’s press secretary, Dmitry Peskov, said there was no response to the call for an investigation into the attack on Il-76.