If Ukrainian prisoners really died in the Il-76 crash, Russia should return their bodies to Ukraine.
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This was stated by the ICRC.
Very little time has passed since the moment that there were such statements, that there were such signals (that Russia is ready to give bodies to Ukraine – “Rakurs”). That is, as a rule, it takes more time for the parties to carry out such an exchange,” said Alexander Vlasenko, representative of the delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Ukraine.
A representative of the delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Ukraine explained to Censor that, in general, such exchanges are regular:
Body exchanges happen all the time. If we talk about the bodies of the dead, it is absurd to talk about their re-involvement in the conflict, so the bodies must be returned as soon as possible. We are participating in this to a certain extent – in the exchange of bodies between the Russian Federation and Ukraine. If there are dead (citizens of Ukraine – “Rakurs”) as a result of this plane crash, their bodies must be returned.
On the evening of January 26, the Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War confirmed that on January 24, they planned to return 65 military personnel from the list published by Russian public pages to Ukraine.
At the same time, the head of the Main Intelligence Directorate, Kirill Budanov, said that there is still no reliable and comprehensive information about who could really be on board the Russian Il-76 military transport aircraft that crashed in the Belgorod region of the Russian Federation on January 24.
On the morning of January 27, the Investigative Committee of Russia published a video of allegedly boarding prisoners in an Il-76. The video, according to the Russian side, shows the boarding of Ukrainian prisoners of war on board an Il-76, which subsequently crashed near Belgorod.
The video, which lasts just over a minute, consists of two parts. In the first part of the video, you can see a convoy of cars approaching the plane along a snowy road. The second part shows a close-up of an airplane, near which the movements of some people and cars are visible. It is impossible to establish for sure that everything that happens in the video is related to the approval of the RF Investigative Committee.
All that can be recognized is a car with an alarm on, followed by a row of six paddy wagons. There are no captions on the video showing the date and time of shooting. The press service of the Investigative Committee did not provide any additional details.
On January 26, Russian President Putin for the first time commented on the crash of the Russian Il-76. He claims that the plane was hit by the Ukrainian military using a foreign-made air defense system.
This can be seen in the elements of the impression. By definition, our air defense cannot strike its own aircraft. There are “friend or foe” systems there, and no matter how much the operator presses the button, our air defense systems would not work,” Putin assured at a meeting with students participating in the war against Ukraine.
According to him, the Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense knew that Russia was transporting prisoners of war.
Journalists analyzed the logic of the recognition system. According to a commentary from the “Analysis” department of the Meduza publication, the logic of the electronic recognition system differs from that described by Putin. It, journalists say, is only an assistant for air defense operators in recognizing targets in combat circumstances, designed to reduce the number of cases of destruction of their aircraft by so-called “friendly fire” and the operation of such systems is “always a compromise between the effectiveness and speed of detecting and destroying hostile targets and safety for their aircraft.”
Source: Racurs
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