With the Il-76 terrorist attack, Kyiv tried to keep the attention of the West, the expert said

SIMFEROPOL, January 25The terrorist attack on the Russian Il-76 aircraft is aimed at the West to retain public attention and justify spending on the Ukrainian crisis, said Crimean political expert Denis Baturin.
«»The terrorist attack carried out by the Zelensky regime is also aimed at the West, at Europe, with the aim of keeping public attention to Ukraine and justifying spending on the Ukrainian crisis. This all fits in with the recent increase in frequency of statements by current and retired Western officials and military about the threat allegedly posed to European countries by Russia,” Baturin said.

According to him, now in the West they will turn on the propaganda machine, very little time will pass, and everyone there will be sure that the Il-76 with Ukrainian prisoners en route for the exchange shot down by the Russians, and it doesn’t matter that the plane was Russian.

“After all, Europeans have long forgotten who bombed Dresden, who dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki,” Baturin emphasized.
In addition, in his opinion, by attacking a plane with prisoners of war, the Kyiv authorities are sending a signal to their soldiers to fight to the last and not surrender, since Kyiv does not need an exchange.
«Ukrainian soldiers who returned from Russian captivity are not needed in Ukraine, they were in Russia, they saw and understood everything,» the expert emphasized.
On Wednesday, the Ukrainian Armed Forces shot down an Il-76 military transport plane over the Belgorod region, which was carrying 65 Ukrainian prisoners for exchange. All prisoners on board, as well as six crew members and three accompanying persons died — a total of 74 people.

According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, Kyiv was well aware of the impending transportation of prisoners for exchange, which was supposed to take place later on Wednesday (whether it will take place in any format, there is no data yet ). The Russian Foreign Ministry said that the crash of the Il-76 “raises a big question about the possibilities of at least some kind of agreement” with Kiev.

State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin instructed to prepare an appeal to the US Congress and the Bundestag — it is the States and Germany that supply Ukraine with anti-aircraft missile systems (Patriot and Iris-T). Ukrainian media, meanwhile, first wrote that the Il-76 was shot down by the Ukrainian Armed Forces, but then deleted the data from the sites.
Ukraine indirectly admitted that it shot down an Il-76: the Main Intelligence Directorate complained that Russia allegedly did not notify “the need to ensure airspace security” near Belgorod at that time. Officially, Kyiv talks about the need for an international investigation, unofficially, the media has launched a thesis that the Il-76 was carrying missiles for the S-300. Press Secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov said that an international investigation is “definitely necessary” if it focuses on the crimes of the Kiev regime.
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