A Russian military transport plane crashed in the Belgorod border area, according to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, all 74 people on board died. The agency reported that there were 65 Ukrainian prisoners of war on board the plane, who were to be exchanged. Kyiv did not confirm or deny the downing of the plane, but said that Moscow had created a “deliberate threat to the lives and safety” of its prisoners of war by not warning of the need to ensure the safety of the airspace before the exchange. The Ukrainian truth is that the Ukrainian army shot down the plane, but the information was denied.

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07:45Ukraine claims to have shot down 11 of 14 Russian drones

Russia launched 14 attack drones and five missiles over Ukraine overnight, the Ukrainian Air Force said Thursday, with air defense systems destroying 11 drones.

The Air Force reported in the Telegram channel that Russia was targeting mainly the south of Ukraine.

Oleg Kiper, the governor of the Odesa region, reported in Telegram that two people were injured during the attack on the Black Sea port city.

“Despite the efficient and effective activity of the air defense in repelling enemy attacks, unfortunately, in Odesa, an industrial facility was hit, residential buildings and civil infrastructure objects were damaged,” Kiper said.

A brief summary of recent events:

• The Russians entered Avdiivka for the first time, but were repulsed – a Ukrainian official
• A Russian Il-76 military transport plane crashed in the Belgorod region of Russia on Wednesday. The Ministry of Defense of Russia reported that 65 Ukrainian military prisoners were on board the Russian military plane that crashed in Belgorod and were being taken for a prisoner exchange. Russia accused Kyiv of shooting down the plane
• Ukraine’s military intelligence service said on Wednesday that Kiev had not been tasked with guarding the airspace in the Belgorod region of southern Russia and that they had no reliable information about who and how many people were on board the plane.
• On Wednesday, the Ukrainian military promised, in what appeared to be a thinly veiled acknowledgment of the downed IL-76, that they would continue to target the Belgorod region and Russian military aircraft.
• Kyiv accuses the Serbian actor of the series “White Lotus” of supporting the Russian invasion
• The only opposition candidate for the presidency of Russia hopes for “the beginning of the end of Putin”
• Italy on Wednesday denied Russia’s claim about the killing of an Italian soldier in Ukraine, calling it fake news used as a weapon of psychological warfare
• Russia asked to convene an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council after the plane crash with Ukrainian prisoners.

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