If Putin was trying to embarrass Ukraine, instead of covering up losing another airplane to the enemy or to friendly fire, as this seems to be, then why didn’t they show the dead bodies of all those POWs? There would have been a lot of bodies to recover, so why didn’t that news filter through to those who want to know and to those whose job it is to know?
And, please pardon my fog of war skepticism, but how often does Russia use aircraft to transport prisoners for exchange? Is that a common thing for them to do?
I doubt it. Seems like a waste of resources and more likely that aircraft was being used to haul something else as usual and not Ukrainian POWs for exchange.
Just curious about what really happened, you know? And you sound so sure about this story as being fact in your post that you seem like the expert to ask.
Is there really a war then? I see the worst propaganda coming from the west so i make a practice to believe nothing they say, the reward for all liars.
here’s a quick lesson from 2014:
“I have nothing against Russian nationalists, or a great Russia,” said Dmitry, as we sped through the dark Mariupol night in a pickup truck, a machine gunner positioned in the back. “But Putin’s not even a Russian. Putin’s a Jew”.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/10/azov-far-right-fighters-ukraine-neo-nazis