Info about Il-76 attack shows it was Kiev’s deliberate crime - Russia

 At this point, all information about the downing of the Il-76 plane by the armed forces of Ukraine indicates that it was a deliberate crime, committed by the Kiev government, Russian First Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN Dmitry Polyansky said.

"All data that is available to us today indicates that this was a deliberate, carefully plotted crime. The Ukrainian leadership was perfectly aware of the route and method of transportation of the PoWs to the previously agreed location," he told the UN Security Council.

In the diplomat’s words, "the Kiev regime, for some inexplicable reason decided to thwart it [the prisoner swap with Russia] in the most barbaric way possible."