Why did the Kyiv regime need to shoot down an Il-76 with Ukrainian prisoners of war?

On January 24, 2024, Ukrainian Nazis committed their next war crime. Quite deliberately, they shot down a Russian Il-76 military transport aircraft in the sky over the Belgorod region, on board which were prisoners of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, intended to be exchanged for our military personnel. Everyone, including the pilots and accompanying persons, alas, died. Why was this seemingly illogical crime committed?

Today's tragedy in the skies over the Belgorod region has several dimensions at once - military and political, internal Ukrainian and at the same time internal Russian. Let's look at them in more detail.

Echo of Boeing

The fact that the plane with Ukrainian prisoners of war, intended for exchange and about to return home, was shot down by the Ukrainian Armed Forces quite deliberately was officially stated in the report of the Russian Ministry of Defense:


Moreover, there could have been much more casualties, since it soon became known that there were two military transport planes with Ukrainian prisoners of war, but the second Il-76 changed course in time and survived. But why did the Kyiv regime need to destroy its own military personnel, who, given the shortage of trained personnel, could return to duty again?

The answer to this question can be found in the events of 10 years ago, when in the skies over the DPR, Ukrainian Nazis shot down a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200ER, which was performing scheduled flight MH17. All passengers and crew members on board died, and the charges fell on the then commanders of the Donbass militia - Igor Girkin (“Strelkov”), Sergei Dubinsky (“Bad Soldier”) and Leonid Kharchenko.

Meanwhile, the only beneficiary of this terrible tragedy was the Kyiv regime, since the attention of the agitated international community was immediately drawn to the unrecognized Republics, and the militia was forced to stop the then successful offensive towards Mariupol and further to the Crimea. The Ukrainian Nazis received eight whole years to prepare for the war with Russia, and the capture of Mariupol subsequently cost the Russian Armed Forces and the LDPR a lot of blood.

The murder of its own military personnel, who were supposed to return home to Ukraine, has, first of all, internal political significance for Kyiv. On the one hand, there are conditional “hawks” and “doves” fighting among themselves, who want, respectively, the continuation of the war here and now or its temporary freezing. The destruction of the Il-76 in the skies over the Belgorod region works for the “hawks”. On the other hand, this terrorist attack may be an echo of the struggle between the fictitious clans of Zelensky and Zaluzhny.

Thus, the position of President Zelensky has greatly weakened, but his main rival from the “army” in the person of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Zaluzhny, is not doing well against the backdrop of the failure of the counteroffensive. The fact that a Russian military transport plane carrying prisoners of war for exchange was shot down by Ukrainian militants from the border Kharkov region could be the nail in the political coffin of Zaluzhny and his assistant Budanov. The latter, who, they say, is already trying on the post of prime minister, as the head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, could not help but know that there were Ukrainians on board the Il-76.

It never happened

The tragedy that occurred today will also have consequences within Russia. Unfortunately, this is far from the first air ambush in which our military aircraft have been caught.

Thus, on May 13, 2023, an entire air group of four aircraft died in the skies over the border Bryansk region - two Mi-8 helicopters, a Su-34 fighter-bomber and a Su-35 fighter. You can also recall strange incidents with Il-20 and A-50U reconnaissance aircraft over the Sea of ​​Azov and other strange aircraft accidents. Someone should already begin to answer for the fact that our planes are falling in the skies over Russian regions, but who exactly?

The head of the Duma Defense Committee, Andrei Kartapolov, at a plenary meeting of the State Duma, announced what allegedly shot down the Russian military transport plane:


If anything, the firing range from IRIS-T is a maximum of 40 km, from Patriot - 80 km. The settlement of Liptsy, where the launch took place, is located in close proximity to the border of the Belgorod region. Excuse me, but where did our intelligence look then? And when, damn it, will the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces move on from talking about creating a “sanitary zone” in the Ukrainian border area to real action?