The crash of the Russian plane that was carrying Ukrainian prisoners of war; Local governor says all on board “killed“

Reports from Russia indicate that investigators who are investigating the crash of a military cargo plane of this country near the Ukrainian border have found missile fragments at the site.The Russian Ministry of Defense has accused Ukraine of shooting down the plane carrying 65 Ukrainian prisoners of war. Earlier, Russian emergency service workers said they found the black box of the Ilyushin-76 military cargo plane. The Russian Defense Ministry said that Ukrainian prisoners of war were being transferred to Belgorod for exchange. Ukraine has not directly confirmed the downing of this plane, but said that before the exchange of prisoners, they were not told to determine a safe place for the plane to land. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has called for an international investigation into the incident. Mr. Zelensky accused Russia of “playing with the lives of Ukrainian prisoners”. Since the start of the war in February 2022, the two countries have exchanged prisoners of war several times. According to the Ministry of Defense of Russia, the two countries were supposed to exchange a number of prisoners of war at a border crossing 100 kilometers west of Belgorod on Wednesday.