The Russian Federation requested an urgent meeting of the United Nations (UN) Security Council regarding the attack on the Il-76 plane. This was announced by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. TASS.
“We requested an urgent meeting of the UN Security Council at 15:00 New York time,” the minister said.
According to him, the Russian side hopes that France, which chairs the UN Security Council, “will scrupulously fulfill its responsibilities and such a meeting will be scheduled as soon as possible.”
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 that the plane was supposed to deliver fighters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine 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 intentional.