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Transporting PoWs with an expensive aircraft instead of train or bus? Very believable. and just 65 in the large aircraft? If they were really aboard and mixed with war weapons like the assumed S-300 rockets this would be just another russian war crime.

It looks the plane did not fly towards Belgorod but took off from Belgorod so the PoW claim is likely bogus.

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Attached: 2 images The crash site and flight direction of the Il-76 that crashed was geolocated. It flew away from Bilhorod towards the northeast. The board number of the crashed IL-76 is RA-78830 which flew through Egypt, before that through Saudi Arabia, before that through the Red Sea and...
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So the russian publish a list of the 65 PoW that they claim to have been aboard this plane. But 17 of them were already exchanged in early January ....

NOELREPORTS 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 (@noelreports@mstdn.social)

It turns out that not one, but 17 of the list of alleged Ukrainian POWs in the Il-76 have been identified as prisoners of war that were already exchanged early January this year. The list therefore looks to be unreliable. https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1750145549385220331
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Anyway all the blame lies on Putin - it was he who started this war. Without this war, there would have been no any POWs at all. And during this war the Ukrainians simply shot down another enemy aircraft. Without crystal ball, how could they know who was onboard.
 

One would think that a prisoner-swap transport would be clearly marked, course clearly announced ahead of time, flown with peacetime transponders on, and so forth, precisely to avoid this sort of thing.

I regard the PoW-swap story as an attempt to make the Ukrainians shy away from further shoot-downs. I.E., the usual Russian bullshit. They cannot admit defeat, and there must be a Ukrainian defeat in the nested Russian doll. Bullshit, ladies, This is just Russians playing at better optics for a grim disaster, imo.
 

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday advanced legislation to allow the U.S. to seize frozen Russian assets to pay for Ukraine's reconstruction.

The top Democrat and Republican on the panel were confident that Senate leadership viewed the legislation, called the REPO Act, as a priority for passage amid stalled efforts to deliver on further assistance for Ukraine.

"Leadership's committed to move this as quickly as it can. It very well could be a caboose on a bill that goes through here quickly," said Sen. Jim Risch (R-Idaho), the ranking member of the committee and sponsor of the REPO Act.

If signed into law, the legislation would mark the first time the U.S. has seized foreign assets of a country with which it is not at war. Lawmakers said that the Biden administration is supportive of the bill.

"They want to have this in their toolkit," said Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.), chair of the committee.

Senate panel advances bill to seize frozen Russian assets for Ukraine

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee advanced legislation Wednesday to allow the U.S. to seize frozen Russian assets to pay for Ukraine’s reconstruction. The top Democrat and Republican on the pa…
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Ukraine will get Sea King helicopters from Germany

Germany has made a significant commitment to Ukraine, with the announcement that it will dispatch six 'Sea King' helicopters from its own military inventory to be delivered starting from the second quarter of this year. This marks a historic first for Germany in providing such support. German...
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Would be nice to see the ex Australian MRH90s there as well.
 
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