It is an information war about the disaster of the Russian aircraft Ilyushin Il-76. It was transporting 65 Ukrainian prisoners of war to Moscow for exchange and was shot down by Ukrainian air defenses. Vladimir Putin, who attacked Kiev, also spoke about this. For the Ukrainians, however, there were weapons systems on board. Russia has resisted an international investigation and yesterday the first evidence was leaked that, as is easy to predict, the Russian investigation is heading towards the runway of the plane full of prisoners that was accidentally shot down by the Ukrainians. Reconstruction, which is rejected by Kiev. According to Ukraine, “only five bodies were found in Belgorod, at the site where the Russian Ilyushin crashed on Wednesday,” reports Avvenire, quoting the testimony of a Ukrainian military intelligence official to CNN.
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Alleged documents and propaganda overlap, as often happened in this war. The Russian Investigative Committee released a video showing vehicles approaching a plane, saying they were “Ukrainian prisoners of war boarding the IL-76 plane that crashed in the Belgorod region after a terrorist attack.” However, the footage cannot be dated and there is no evidence that it is of this flight and, if any, of these prisoners.
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Yesterday, alleged lists of passengers on the flight were published on Telegram and social media, including 65 soldiers, many of them from the Azov Battalion. The list was not confirmed by Putin's spokesman Peskov and was disputed by many Ukrainian observers, who found in the list names of prisoners who had already been exchanged with Moscow and had already returned home.