Russia can lie about Ukrainian prisoners of war on board of the downed IL-76-Forbes

Journalists were embarrassed by the fact that the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation believed that they could safely send bulky cargo aircraft IL-76 to the Russian city of Belgorod, located near the Ukrainian border. "As Napoleon Bonaparte said," Never interrupt your enemy when he makes a mistake, "journalists commented on this. To deny that the aircraft was knocked down by Ukraine, because one video shows a clear smoke trace that points to a rocket.

Forbes also do not believe that Bort was transporting 65 Ukrainian prisoners of war for agreed exchange, because many bodies are not visible in the video from the catastrophe. "Evidence is likely to indicate a true confusion of a legitimate military goal, not a terrorist random murder of Ukrainian captives by their own government. The fact that Ukrainian aircraft could have hit the cargo plane flying over Belgorod should not surprise anyone.

Kharkiv is well protected by one of the best in Ukraine, Western Air Defense Defense, obviously including one of the three batteries of the Air Force Patrio missiles, "Forbes writes. It is noted that the Patriot Pac-2 missile radius is almost 160 km. aircraft over Belgorod. "In other words, the Russians had to know that it is better not to send a large slow transport aircraft to a possible murder zone of rockets.

"Landing a transport aircraft in a 30-kilometer combat zone cannot be safe,"-quotes the publication of the Ministry of Defense. On January 24, Russian media reported that in the Belgorod region of Russia, an IL-76 military transport aircraft had fallen. According to Russian journalists, the plane could have crashed in the Kryvyi Farm.

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation stated that 65 Ukrainian prisoners of war could have been on board IL-76, who were allegedly transported for exchange. In the United States, they cannot confirm information that on board the IL-76 aircraft, which was crashed in the Belgorod region of the Russian Federation, were Ukrainian prisoners of war. President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky has stated that Kiev will insist on an international investigation into the fall of IL-76.