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Russia accuses Ukraine of killing 65 of its own POWs by shooting down plane (www.reuters.com)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

There are some reports that the plane had arrived from Iran and was departing Belgorod in a north-easterly direction.
https://twitter.com/igorsushko/status/1750122712805319034

Plenty of weaponry and drone instructors are coming from Iran...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Sushko is well-known for spreading propaganda. If you wouldn't take news from RT, don't take it from Sushko.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

I wouldn't call it propaganda or even news - it's just theories at this stage.
What we can speculate about is motive to deceive. Russia has been incurring some notable losses from Ukrainian anti-air defences recently, so there would be a motive from the Russian side to portray those anti-air defences as either ineffective or untrustworthy so as to try and sway public opinion about its use.

Claiming that POWs were onboard the plane aligns with that motive but it also raises questions such as:

The plane was reportedly shot down after taking off from Belgorod, so if it was carrying POWs away from Belgorod, what was the intended destination? It doesn't seem logical that Russia would fly from Belgorod into Ukraine (unless they were stupid or taking the risk).
Why not transport POWs to Ukraine by road or rail, given that Kharkiv is only a 90 min drive away?