Posted on 01/27/2024 7:05:35 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – Officials in Ukraine said Russia has provided no credible evidence to back its claims that their own forces shot down a military transport plane carrying Ukrainian prisoners of war who were to be swapped for Russian POWs.
The Ukrainian agency that deals with prisoner exchanges said late Friday that Russian officials had “with great delay” provided it with a list of the 65 Ukrainians who Moscow said had died in the Wednesday plane crash in Russia’s Belgorod region.
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Russians probably did it deliberately so they could conveniently get rid of the bodies of Ukrainian POW’s they had illegally tortured
Would fit their pattern of behavior perfectly
Like Ukraine claims they had nothing to do with blowing up Nordstream. It was some rogue Ukrainians on an oligarch’s yacht.
They world never admit that the Ghost of Kyiv shot it down
“Ukraine Claims No Evidence It Shot Down Plane Carrying Own Prisoners of War”
Probably TRUE, considering the US would be CRAZY to let Ukrainians man the Patriot Missiles, given how badly they did at Kiev Airport about 6 months ago - where they fired every missile at decoys and then the real missiles came in and WIPED OUT the entire battery.
“Like Ukraine claims they had nothing to do with blowing up Nordstream.”
The Ukrainians simply don’t have the capability to secretly blow up the pipeline - it was done by their ‘friends’, almost for sure.
Where are all the bodies? They showed two...
That deserves its own thread - was there one?
Yeah, that’s always a winning argument: “there’s no evidence we did it”....
not to my knowledge
That would make a great thread about Justin TruCastro
Oops
The official version of the Russian Federation regarding the crash of Il-76 on January 24, 2023, is reduced to the following position:
The airplane carried Ukrainian prisoners of war who were to be delivered for exchange (192 for 192).
▪️ This version is illogical, and here is why:
a) the aircraft crashed (was shot down) on takeoff from the airfield in Belgorod. Where exactly could the prisoners, who were already 40 kilometers away from the Ukrainian border, have been delivered to? The Kolotilovka-Pokrovka border point is the only functioning “corridor” for exchanges. It is 95 km away from Belgorod and it is impossible to deliver anyone there by plane.
b) That very aircraft has never been used for transporting POWs before. Moreover, it flew to the Middle East and its current flight was a return from there. “The Il-76 shot down today near Belgorod was returning to Chkalovsky (military air base - ed.) after its routine patrol of the Middle East. Such a route the aircraft has been doing regularly for several years now,” sources reported.
c) the Russian side claims to have warned the Ukrainian side about the route of the prisoners’ delivery. However, a strike on our own soldiers is absolutely not favorable to Ukraine and would create massive problems for us (both at home and in the international arena). Whereas for the Russian Federation, everything is exactly the opposite, as the first reaction of officials confirms (for example, the speaker of the State Duma V. Volodin changed the discussion towards the necessity of finding out what weapon was used to shoot down the aircraft — with an obvious promotion of demands to the West to stop providing high-tech military aid to Ukraine).
d) the aircraft was flying north, in the opposite direction from the border with Ukraine. No official Ukrainian spokesman gave any information about the shooting down of the aircraft, no confirmation or claim of responsibility.
c) the attack on the aircraft could happen only in case of a Russian provocation and special operation of Russian special services that misinformed the Ukrainian side about the particular flight.
There is no evidence that there were 63 Ukrainian prisoners of war on board; the lists that are thrown in the media space by the Russian side are not any kind of evidence, and it is impossible to verify them. In fact, about 17 names on the list coincide with the names of prisoners of war already exchanged earlier.
d) observers pointed out that for such a large number of prisoners, the number of declared accompanying officers (3) is too small, which is a violation of all statutes and protocols
More here: https://twitter.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1750174417672397104
You might be believeable were you not weighing in with zeeper propagandists. Therefore will not rad for substance and assume that it’s just more lies.
The Ukrainian lie like they breath.
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Slick Willy famously said, I don’t believe you will ever find the evidence that I did___________________. Which means, I maybe or did do what you say, but I am called Slick for a reason.
“You might be believeable were you not weighing in with zeeper propagandists.”
LOL! The irony! The irony!
So says a Putinistia who parrots every propaganda link from Moscow!
BTW, the plane was shot down on take off. So why would it land so close to the Ukr border and not off load Ukr POWs to be bussed to Ukraine for prisoner exchanges but still have them on board when it crashed?
“An inquiring mind wants to know”
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Let’s posit a scenario where Russia loaded up a plane with captured western PoWs; they set a scenario where the trigger happy US shoots down a plane full of western POW. What if they set up the West to execute their own returnees.
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