“In any case, I can tell you that the reaction of high American offices to the destruction of our transport ship... was very negative,” RIA Novosti quotes him as saying.
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.