INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
An Il-76 aircraft crashed Wednesday morning in western Russia's Belgorod region which borders Ukraine, killing everyone on board.Footage
posted on social media showed what appears to be a large plane falling from the sky and then crashing.The plane was said to have crashed
near the town of Yablonovo less than 50 kilometers from the Ukrainian border
today, the Kyiv regime committed a terrorist act, resulting in the downing of a Russian military transport aircraft
the ministry said.It claimed Ukrainian forces stationed in the Kharkiv region, located across the border from Belgorod, had fired two
investigators and emergency crews at the crash site, where he confirmed everyone on board the airplane had died
said that Moscow has requested an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council regarding the plane crash.Russian lawmaker Andrei Kartapolov,
outlet that a prisoner swap was planned for Wednesday, but he could not confirm whether any Ukrainian prisoners were on board the Il-76
also said it had no "reliable information" about who was on board the plane."We currently do not have reliable or comprehensive information
Ukrainian POWs were on board, the intelligence agency accused Moscow of endangering the lives of its captured soldiers."Ukraine was not
informed about the number of vehicles, routes and forms of delivery of prisoners," it said."It is known that prisoners are delivered by air,
This may indicate deliberate actions by Russia aimed at endangering the lives and safety of prisoners."Ukrainian President Volodymyr
Zelensky said Russia was "playing with the lives of Ukrainian prisoners.""It is obvious that the Russians are playing with the lives of
Ukrainian prisoners, with the feelings of their relatives and with the emotions of our society," Zelensky said in an evening address in
which he did not confirm or deny Russia's claims but called for an international investigation into what brought down the
outlet iStories, citing Ukrainian open-source investigators, claimed the Il-76 had flown over Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the Red Sea and Iran
before disappearing from radars, only to later reappear over Russia's Belgorod region.It was not immediately possible to verify that
