“Downed its plane” is burying the lede lol “The aircraft was carrying captive Ukrainian military personnel who had been slated to be exchanged in a prisoner swap.”

Russia’s Il-76 plane was presumably downed by Patriot missile system - source — TASS

31 Jan 2024 (archive link)

The Ukrainian armed forces shot down an Il-76 military cargo aircraft over Russia’s borderline Belgorod Region on January 24. It was presumably downed by a Western-made Patriot missile system, a law enforcement source told TASS.

“Most likely, a Patriot missile system was used. A probe continues” he said. Another source confirmed this information to TASS.

Il-76 crash

The Ukrainian armed forces shot down an Il-76 military cargo aircraft over Russia’s borderline Belgorod Region on January 24. The aircraft was carrying captive Ukrainian military personnel who had been slated to be exchanged in a prisoner swap. The crash killed all 74 people on board, including 65 Ukrainian POWs. The Russian Defense Ministry described the incident as a terrorist attack, pointing out that Kiev had been aware of the mission to transport Ukrainian POWs for a prisoner swap set to take place at the Kolotilovka checkpoint. However, Kiev attacked the plane in order to accuse Moscow of killing Ukrainian service members, the ministry noted.

Lol the CNN story was based on an anonymous intel source. Zelensky was saying the Russians shot it down 🤣🤣

“Russia lied as usual”

Amazing how you managed to lose multiple counteroffensives while winning the entire time. Do you ever get the feeling that maybe you’re the one getting duped?

As promised, here’s my audit of Oryx’s equipment loss tracking. Oryx is well touted by institutional and mainstream media sources for an independent and open source verifiable low end accounting of equipment losses in the Ukraine War.

https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/05/13/remember-the-maine-the-alleged-russian-atrocity-at-bucha-looks-like-another-in-a-long-line-of-false-pretexts-for-war/

https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/09/28/videos-obtained-by-a-nato-nations-intelligence-agency-but-now-classified-allegedly-expose-ukrainian-military-as-responsible-for-killing-of-civilians-at-bucha/

Beatings, Stabbings, & Electric Shocks: Donetsk Militia Vets’ Ordeal in Ukraine’s Torture Chambers

Olga spent 120 days in SBU captivity. She endured endless interrogations, torture with electric shocks in a specially set up torture chamber in the basement. An electric current would pass through metal electrodes placed upon wet tissues in the area of the kidneys. “The pain was excruciating, impossible to describe in words,” recalled Olga.

https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/04/06/was-alleged-russian-army-massacre-of-civilians-at-bucha-actually-a-false-flag-event-staged-by-ukrainian-nazis/

https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/07/17/the-lord-of-the-underworld-meet-the-paratrooper-from-north-carolina-who-orchestrated-the-war-in-ukraine/

On February 2, 2023, a Russian gunner watched a column of vehicles drive through the streets of Bakhmut, the site of what could be the most ferocious fighting of the Russo-Ukrainian war. The column consisted of a Land Rover of the same type Ukrainian forces routinely use for military purposes and several unmarked civilian vans. Severe shortages of military vehicles mean that “civilian” vehicles are pressed into service by the Ukrainian military in large numbers, often without even bothering to repaint them.

The practice is so common and accepted among Ukrainian forces that the far-right German tabloid Bild interviewed Ukrainian Army soldiers using civilian DHL delivery vans to transport mortars. The soldiers proudly posed for photographs and happily chatted with the reporter, either not knowing or simply not caring that they were documenting a war crime.

https://mronline.org/2021/12/11/the-maidan-massacre-in-ukraine/

https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/06/10/how-monsters-who-had-beaten-jews-to-death-with-hammers-in-1944-became-americas-favorite-freedom-fighters-in-1945-with-a-little-help-from-their-friends-at-cia/

I have an account on every lemmy bruh, and a few on lemm.ee

I live in seattle and im moving to vietnam shortly

What are you talking about dumbass? Reddit still thinks Ukraine is winning. You came here FROM REDDIT.

84% of the world population agrees with me about Donbas self determination. I don’t give a fuck about the weird european countries and vassals of the USA

It’s not irrelevant at all and you didn’t read anything I posted 😤

Uh no there’s a reason why you think a russian bot is working you on lemmy, and that’s the mainstreaming of the russia narrative

Federation is confusing and annoying, i replied from another instance first but nobody saw my account.

I made this account with the Memmy app… which isn’t very good. You cannot even edit

Haha good post overall but man Jacobin and Taibbi are hit or miss 😂 these are hits tho. Cheers

*mainstreaming of the russia gate narrative. it’s take over finland and sweden not just USA on MSNBC. i saw it at the gym it was drilled into my brain