Ukraine and Russia Call for International Investigations into Russian Plane Crash
Both Russian and Ukrainian leaders blamed the other nation of shooting down a Russian transport plane carrying Ukrainian prisoners of war near the border of Ukraine on Wednesday. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy are both pushing for an international investigation.
Category
đź—ž
NewsTranscript
00:00 I have to start with another fact of the use of terrorist methods by the Kiev regime.
00:10 On the morning of January 24, Moscow time, a terrorist act was committed,
00:18 as a result of which a Russian transport plane IL-76 was shot down in the Belgorod region,
00:30 which was carrying 65 Ukrainian military personnel, accompanied by three Russian officers and a crew of six.
00:47 All of them were killed.
00:49 Ukrainian prisoners of war were taken to the Belgorod region in order to carry out another exchange agreed between Moscow and Kiev.
01:00 Instead of this exchange, the Ukrainian side fired anti-aircraft missiles from the Kharkov region,
01:10 which resulted in a fatal blow to the plane.
01:15 We have already requested an urgent meeting of the UN Security Council at 15.00 New York time.
01:27 We hope that the French Presidency will fulfill its duties and will hold such a meeting as soon as possible.
01:39 The 700th day of this war is a very difficult day.
01:45 The first day of the war called for a moderate, calm, whispered, calm and small talk about the situation with the plane and the exchange.
01:53 It is obvious that the Russians are playing with the lives of Ukrainian prisoners of war, with the feelings of their families and with the emotions of our society.
01:59 We need to establish all the facts as clearly as possible,
02:04 because the plane crashed in the Russian territory, which is out of our control.
02:09 The facts are the main thing.
02:11 The Head of the Committee and the General Staff have listened to the use of air forces.
02:15 The HUR is investigating the fate of all prisoners of war.
02:19 The Security Service of Ukraine is investigating all the circumstances.
02:23 I gave an order to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine to inform partners about the available data in Ukraine.
02:29 Our state will rely on international investigation.