Russia’s state-run information company studies that two black containers have been discovered from a Russian army transport airplane that crashed close to the Ukrainian border within the Belgorod area on Wednesday. Russia has accused Ukraine of capturing down the airplane.
TASS information company said on Thursday that the black containers have been recovered on the crash web site and can be despatched to a Russian Defense Ministry laboratory for evaluation to find out the reason for the crash.
The Russian Defense Ministry beforehand claimed that the Ilyushin Il-76 airplane was shot down by anti-aircraft missiles fired from Ukraine close to the Russian border. They additionally said that the downed airplane was en path to a hostage alternate with Ukraine and that every one 74 folks on board, together with 65 Ukrainian prisoners of warfare and 9 Russian personnel, have been killed within the crash.
The Ukrainian authorities has not confirmed or denied its involvement within the airplane crash.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused Russia, saying, “It is clear that the Russians are messing with the lives of Ukrainian captives, the sentiments of their kin, and the feelings of our society,” and referred to as for a world investigation into the crash.
In response to Zelenskyy’s remarks about a world inquiry, Russian presidential spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday that an investigation into what he known as the prison acts by Ukraine is critical.
The Institute for the Study of War, a US suppose tank, urged in its evaluation on Wednesday that Russians are leveraging the airplane crash to stoke home discontent in Ukraine and undermine the intent of Western nations to proceed offering army assist to Ukraine.