{"id":140528,"date":"2024-02-18T14:26:43","date_gmt":"2024-02-18T21:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=140528"},"modified":"2024-02-18T14:26:43","modified_gmt":"2024-02-18T21:26:43","slug":"uk-behind-attack-on-russian-il-76-with-ukrainian-pows-source","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2024\/02\/18\/uk-behind-attack-on-russian-il-76-with-ukrainian-pows-source\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Behind Attack on Russian IL-76 With Ukrainian POWs &#8211; Source"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Sputnik<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn1.img.sputnikglobe.com\/img\/07e8\/01\/18\/1116366640_0:37:1186:704_1920x0_80_0_0_9de50ed0c0a74dab8552f244c5d07aed.png.webp\" alt=\"Remnants of Russian Il-76 with Ukrainian PoWs onboard shot down over Belgorod region. - Sputnik International, 1920, 18.02.2024\" title=\"Remnants of Russian Il-76 with Ukrainian PoWs onboard shot down over Belgorod region.\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a9 Sputnik \/ Stringer<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On January 24, the Ukrainian Armed Forces shot down a Russian Air Force Il-76 military transport plane over the Belgorod region that was carrying 65 Ukrainian prisoners set for exchange.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kiev&#8217;s British advisers are responsible for the deaths of the POWs and the crew of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/sputnikglobe.com\/20240131\/putin-on-downed-il-76-jet-ukraine-wants-to-provoke-us-into-retaliatory-actions-1116516148.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Il-76 transport plane<\/a>, which was shot down by a Ukrainian missile, an informed source familiar with the situation has told&nbsp;<em>Sputnik<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The attack on the Il-76 was carried out under pressure from British advisers without coordination with the air defense headquarters in Kiev and without additional double-checking of information on aircraft movements over the Belgorod region,&#8221; the source said.<a href=\"https:\/\/sputnikglobe.com\/20240218\/uk-behind-attack-on-russian-il-76-with-ukrainian-pows---source-1116854726.html#\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Six Russian crew members, three Russian servicemen, and 65 Ukrainian POWs on board the airplane were killed after a missile hit the Il-76 over the Belgorod Region on January 24. The aircraft was en route for a planned prisoner exchange that was subsequently canceled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Russian Investigative Committee said that the\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/sputnikglobe.com\/20240217\/ukrainian-forces-chaotically-fleeing-from-avdeyevka---dpr-official-1116841915.html\" target=\"_blank\">Ukrainian Armed Forces<\/a>\u00a0used a MIM-104A guided missile fired from a Patriot system to shoot down the plane.<a href=\"https:\/\/sputnikglobe.com\/20240205\/us-state-dept-fails-to-answer-questions-on-involvement-of-ukraine-in-terrorist-attack-against-il-76-1116608874.html\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sputnikglobe.com\/world\/\">World<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sputnikglobe.com\/20240205\/us-state-dept-fails-to-answer-questions-on-involvement-of-ukraine-in-terrorist-attack-against-il-76-1116608874.html\">US State Dept. Dodges Questions on Ukraine\u2019s Involvement in Terrorist Attack on IL-76<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>5 February, 21:04 GMT<a href=\"https:\/\/sputnikglobe.com\/20240218\/uk-behind-attack-on-russian-il-76-with-ukrainian-pows---source-1116854726.html#\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vladimir Putin called the attack a crime by the Kiev regime against its own citizens. According to him, the Ukrainian side knew there were POWs from the Ukrainian Armed Forces on board, but still attacked it. The Russian Foreign Ministry said that the plane crash raises a big question about the possibility of any agreements with Kiev.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Sputnik \u00a9 Sputnik \/ Stringer On January 24, the Ukrainian Armed Forces shot down a Russian Air Force Il-76 military transport plane over the Belgorod region that was carrying 65 Ukrainian prisoners set for exchange. Kiev&#8217;s British advisers are responsible for the deaths of the POWs and the crew of the&nbsp;Il-76 transport plane, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}