2024-01-25 12:15:52
1/25/2024 07H15 – UPDATED 1/25/2024 07H15
The Security Council will meet on Thursday at 5:00 p.m. local time (22:00 GMT) to discuss the downing of a Russian plane on Wednesday morning in Ukraine, a plane that Russia says was transporting Ukrainian prisoners and in which Its 74 occupants perished.
Russia’s deputy ambassador to the UN, Dmitry Polyanskiy, reported this Wednesday on his “shield his client, the Kiev regime.”
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With this delay – points out the Russian representative – it is possible to give the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, precious time “to invent some minimally plausible explanation for what he has committed.”
The Il-76 crashed about 50 kilometers from the Ukrainian border after explosions were heard in the air, according to eyewitnesses cited by Russian agencies. According to Moscow, there were 65 Ukrainian prisoners on board ready to be exchanged for Russian prisoners, three Russian guards and the rest of the crew.
On Belgorod’s social networks you can see images of the Il-76 crashing into the ground at high speed and exploding in an open field.
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stressed this morning at the UN that Ukraine first boasted about the downing of the plane in a digital publication, but then removed the publication, something that he said confirmed Ukrainian responsibility for the downing, even if it was by mistake. .
The Russian diplomat Polyanskiy points out that, by not addressing the urgency that his country demanded, France is abusing its functions as president of the Security Council, which is why he considers it “deplorable that the glorious French diplomacy of other times has shrunk to (being) a miserable fraud and pathetic manipulation.”
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