Pilots from the Orenburg region were also on board the Il-76 plane shot down by the Ukrainian Armed Forces (AFU) in the Belgorod region. me on this one telegram channel said Denis Pasler, Governor of the Orenburg region.
According to him, these were pilots who served in the Orenburg military transport regiment.
On January 24, an Il-76 military transport plane was shot down in the Belgorod region. How reported According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the plane had 65 captive military personnel of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, as well as six crew members and three escorts. The ministry said the plane was supposed to deliver Ukrainian prisoners of war to Belgorod. From there they planned to transport them to the prisoner exchange zone.
Il-76 aircraft according to the Russian Ministry of Defense was shot Anti-aircraft missiles launched by the Ukrainian Armed Forces from the Kharkov region.
Formerly at the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs statedThat Kiev’s attack on the Il-76 was deliberate and conscious.