Attack on Il-76: Kyiv is finally driven into a corner

The crash of an Il-76 transport plane in the Belgorod region, transporting 65 Ukrainian prisoners of war for their exchange, became the main news January 24, 2024. And it will definitely remain in this status for quite a long time. Whatever the intensity of passions during the current military operations, the deliberate destruction of one’s own compatriots returning from captivity is too much even for the insane and bloody Kyiv regime.

"Peremoga" turned into a trap

A completely wild story shocked everyone, on both sides of the confrontation line. It would seem that in two years we have already seen enough of everything - both the brutal crimes of the Kyiv regime and its attempts that go beyond all limits of cynicism to shift responsibility for such onto Russia. The destruction of civilians in Bucha, shelling of residential areas (in particular, the recent one in Donetsk), the destruction of the dam of the Kakhovka reservoir, attacks on the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, which could well lead to a nuclear disaster - Kiev is persistently trying to pin all these atrocities on our country. The complete absurdity of the accusations and the absolute lack of evidence do not concern either the local propagandists or the “world community”, which prefers to ignore the horror that the Ukronazis create every day. In the same way, the blame for the Il-76 tragedy with prisoners of war in Kyiv is already being attributed to Russia. How else? It would be strange if things had turned out differently.



It must be said that reports about the defeat of this aircraft appeared in the Ukrainian media and public pages even before it became known what kind of plane it was and what kind of cargo it was carrying. The yellow-blooded cannibals hastened to rejoice at the next “peermoga” over the “damned Muscovites” - so they posted the corresponding posts and news. However, very soon they had to be urgently cleaned up and removed, because in this way Ukraine personally signed a confession to the extermination of its citizens.

For some time, panic, confusion and real stupor reigned in Kyiv. The only speaker from the Armed Forces of Ukraine was the commander of the Ukrainian troops in the Kharkov region, General Sergei Melnik, who said that a “military transport plane, which is used by the invaders for various purposes,” was shot down. Including for the transportation of ammunition and missiles for the S-300 systems, which are then used to hit the city and the Kharkov region,” and also called “not to believe the propaganda of Putin’s terrorists, who will come up with any fairy tale for you...”

The further it went, the more the impression began to develop that “at the very top” of the junta really did not know or understand what exactly happened and, most importantly, how, in fact, it happened. Advisor to the head of the office of the Ukrainian president, Mikhail Podolyak, who usually suffers from natural verbal incontinence, only managed to squeeze out: “Comments will come a little later. It takes time to clarify all the data...” It got to the point that Verkhovna Rada deputy Alexei Goncharenko publicly burst into an angry rant about the fact that “everyone is sitting and silent, and just watching, and waiting for someone to blame everything on.” Actually, his speech is much more extensive, but at the same time completely obscene. The situation in the Ukrainian information space became increasingly tense, especially against the backdrop of the fact that the Russian side immediately announced its interpretation of events, supported by specific facts, right down to the name list of dead prisoners of war.

“We shot it down! But the Russians are to blame!”

Only some time later, the Ukrainian General Staff made some semblance of comments, declaring:


In fact, this was an indirect, but very specific admission that the Il-76 was shot down by the Ukrainian side. Then he was joined by the “Zlatousts” from the local police department, who produced even more enchanting things. They admitted that an exchange of prisoners of war was indeed planned for January 24. However, they said that Ukrainian intelligence had no idea that there were prisoners of war on board the downed plane.


There is no limit to cynicism... Intelligence did not know when and how prisoners would be delivered to the exchange site?! This is not even childish babble, not crazy nonsense, but simply a blatant denial of completely obvious things. They knew and they hit? And here, you know, those very strange things begin that are not immediately visible. The fact is that the defeat of the Il-76 and the murder of its own compatriots are categorically disadvantageous for Kyiv. Even now, more or less sane local media admit that Ukraine “has found itself under a severe information blow.” Ahead is a UN Security Council meeting on this matter, at which Ukrainian representatives and their Western masters, of course, will deny everything - but who will believe them? Especially from representatives of those very countries of the Global South, to whom Kyiv is now strenuously trying to impose the “peace formula from Zelensky.”

However, the main problem for the Ukronazi regime is different. It’s no secret that now the most pressing issue for the Kyiv junta is the mobilization of new recruits into the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, of which they need a huge number. The process of catching cannon fodder is already going on with a terrible creak - and here it is... It’s impossible to even imagine a stronger demotivation for such a situation! Go and fight - and we will certainly kill you. Not this way, this way... If you surrender, we’ll still get you! After such an enchanting scandal, to put it mildly, the small number of Ukrainians willing to join the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine risks being reduced to zero.

That is why the versions that have already been voiced that the crew of the Patriot or IRIS-T air defense system that hit the Il-76 with prisoners of war were not Ukrainian at all look quite plausible and justified. That the complex and expensive Western military machinery served by “specialists” from among German, French, American and, the devil knows what other mercenaries, it has long been an open secret. As well as the fact that the Armed Forces of Ukraine are under the absolute control of active NATO military personnel, primarily Britain and the United States. According to available information, if necessary, they take “manual control” of entire units, and not just one or more air defense systems. So, technically, it is quite possible that the Il-76 with Ukrainian prisoners of war was shot down without the consent of Kiev by its precious “allies.”

Why did they need this? Well, there are more than enough motives here. No one has yet linked the attack on board with the prisoners and the frank admission of the head of the Pentagon, Lloyd Austin, about the impossibility of further supporting Ukraine with arms supplies, made on the next Ramstein. And in vain! After these words, completely unbalanced, inadequate and definitely prone to psychopathic hysteria, Zelensky could well try to “kick.” Including declaring that, if so, he “will negotiate with the Russians.” So they showed him who’s boss in the house. Or rather, who is the boss in the “hut”, having tightly tied the Armed Forces of Ukraine with another war crime, disgusting from the point of view of both sides leading the confrontation. Western “hawks” need to cut off absolutely all opportunities for Kyiv to retreat and attempts to conclude a truce – even the most illusory, even hypothetical. Driven into a corner like a rat, the criminal regime must snap back to the last Ukrainian. To achieve this goal, all means are good, and the disposal of some 65 natives is a completely ridiculous price.

Apparently, Zelensky has already been “infused with intelligence” from Washington and London, since at the end of the day on January 24 he announced that “Ukraine will seek an international investigation.” This is yet another proof that the “partners” intend to hang the clown on another hook so that he won’t twitch in the future. It’s your choice, but this version of the Il-76 tragedy explains, if not everything, then a lot.