Russia accuses Kyiv of downing plane carrying Ukrainian prisoners of war
by Pjotr Sauer, Luke Harding in Kyiv and Andrew Roth from on (#6J390)
Moscow says aircraft that went down in border region of Belgorod was carrying prisoners who were to be swapped
Russia has accused Kyiv of downing a large military transport plane carrying Ukrainian prisoners of war to an exchange on Wednesday, after a crash in the Belgorod region that killed everyone onboard.
Ukraine has neither confirmed nor denied that it hit the plane but said Moscow had created a deliberate threat to the life and safety" of its PoWs by failing to warn Kyiv to deconflict the airspace before the swap.
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