Posted on 01/28/2024 12:59:00 PM PST by george76
Senior Russian officials were due to fly on the doomed military plane that crashed Wednesday, killing around 65 Ukrainian prisoners of war – but were stopped “at the last moment” by their security services, according to Ukraine.
The claim came as gruesome new video showed apparent charred human remains at the scene of the crashed plane, which Russia has blamed Ukraine for downing as it flew to a prisoner exchange.
“It is known that there were indeed several VIPs from the military and political representation of the state aggressor due to fly on the Il-76,” Andrii Yusov, spokesman for Ukrainian military intelligence, told Radio Svoboda.
“But at the last moment, the FSB [Russian Security Services] actually ordered them not to board the plane and to use other means of transport,” he claimed.
“This information came to light after the event happened.”
Yusov also claimed officials from the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations who arrived to inspect the crash site in the Belgorod region were “driven out” by FSB agents.
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Russia claimed that there were 65 PoWs, six crew members and three security guards aboard the military transport when it was struck by a Ukrainian-made surface-to-air missile. Ukraine’s Yusov said that only five bodies were delivered from the location of the wreckage to the local morgue in Belgorod.
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Andrei Kartopolov, a former general with close ties to Russia’s defense ministry, told lawmakers Thursday that Ukrainian military intelligence had been given a 15-minute warning before the Il-76 plane entered the Belgorod zone – a claim Kyiv refuted.
Yusov said that contrary to practice before previous PoW exchanges, Ukrainian officials had received no requests from Russia to hold fire in the airspace where the plane was downed.
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Pretty well known the Russians will shoot down a plane and cover it up.
Why would VIPs and “senior Russian officials” be on a flight full of Ukrainian POWs?
The stupid Ukes trying to cover their incompetent a$$es. Did the Russians save Waylon Jennings too?
Good fortune for the guy....
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Why would VIPs and “senior Russian officials” be on a flight full of Ukrainian POWs?
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Because the Ukrainians say so. Are you gonna believe them or your common sense?
Do you believe that is what happened?
Blows my mind how far FreeRepublic has fallen over the decades. There was a day and time in the not-so-distant past, where we would have never seen posts and replies form Russian/Putin apologists. Alas - they have infiltrated even this old bastion of Conservative news and commentary.
It’s one thing to rightly point out Ukrainian corruption (along with everywhere else, including the USA), but to simply dismiss UA claims because they are made by Ukrainians (oh - Biden supports them, so they must all be lying scumbags, right?)...
Sigh.
“… according to Ukraine.”
but to simply dismiss UA claims because they are made by Ukrainians
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Did the Ghost of Kiev send you a personalized autograph or something?
thanks for proving my point...
I have no love for Russia and I am hardly a "Russian/Putin apologist," but there would be some real justice in the world if Alexander Vindman's home country was completely conquered by Russia and vanished from the history books forever.
Russianphile here. Wouldn’t believe a word that comes out of Ukraine. I see no contradiction between being a fervent conservative and being anti Ukraine. Too often I see posts that define RIGHT as being the mirror that shows the poster’s positions. You’re free to have a different opinion than mine. I’m free to have a different opinion than yours. Viva la difference.
“spokesman for Ukrainian military intelligence”
LOL, figured. Must be trying to give the Biden Administration a run for the money.
Nothing suspicious there...
Move along...😳
If a hoho ever told the truth about anything, his brain would short-circuit and he’d die.
fixed it
“You may be forgetting that in 2019 we witnessed the outrageous attempt by a cabal of Americans and their Ukrainian counterparts to topple the Trump administration.”
More likely he CELEBRATES that fact. Why else be an Apologist for the Biden Administration?
Glorious Azov comrade prisoners!
Parachutes in 3 days! Pack your parade parachutes! Be sure to carry some metal so they can find you with the metal detectors!
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