Published 2024-01-24 10.18
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A video from a Russian Telegram channel is said to show the plane crash.
A Russian military plane has crashed in Belgorod.
All on board are said to have died.
According to Russia, they are Ukrainian prisoners of war, and according to Ukrainian information, the plane must have transported the S-300 air defense system on board.
A Russian military plane has crashed in Belgorod, according to Reuters.
A video clip circulating on social media is said to show the plane plummeting to the ground and exploding.
The Russian Ministry of Defense confirms that the aircraft crashed, according to Tass.
About seventy people on board the military plane died when it crashed in the Russian Belgorod region, Telegram channel 112 reports according to Meduza magazine.
Russia: Ukrainian prisoners of war on board
It is supposed to be about 65 Ukrainian prisoners of war who were on the plane and were to be exchanged. There were also six Russian crew members and three more Russians on the plane, according to the Russian Defense Ministry, according to the BBC.
The aircraft was of the Il-76 type.
Ukrainska Pravda issued unconfirmed information that the aircraft was carrying missiles for the S-300 air defense system. The newspaper first also referred to an anonymous source within the Ukrainian army who reportedly said that the plane crash was “their work”. Information that Pravda later retracted after another of their military sources did not confirm this.
The Russian Foreign Ministry accuses Ukraine of shooting down the plane, but without providing evidence, writes BBC.
The Russian member of parliament Andrei Kartapolov claims that the plane was shot down with robots of the type that countries in the West provided Ukraine with. But this information has not been able to be confirmed.
An investigative commission has been sent to the scene reports BBC referring to the Russian military.
The text is updated.
Russian Telegram channels report that a Russian Il-76 airlifter crashed in Belgorod region.
Upd. According to some reports of Russian media, all 63 people on board died.
