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This is a list of Ukrainian, Russian and Russian-separatist aircraft losses during the Russo-Ukrainian War based on visual evidences or official confirmation from involved parties. It includes helicopters , fixed-wing aircraft and drones (UAVs), and losses from the War in Donbas , the current Russian invasion of Ukraine and the Wagner Group ...
On 29 February, Russian presidential commissioner for human rights Tatiana Moskalkova said that Russia was willing to repatriate the remains of the POWs killed in the crash. In response, Ukraine's human rights ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets accused her of "speculating" on the crash, noting that Russia had not released an official passenger list or ...
For the first year following the crash, Russian state media claimed that a Ukrainian Air Force Su-25 jet had shot down Flight 17. [21] Radar data, allegedly from Russian air traffic controllers, which was leaked to a Moscow newspaper, was claimed to be proof that there were Ukrainian military jets near MH17. [353]
On 22 December 2023, The Wall Street Journal cited sources within the Western and Russian intelligence agencies as saying that the crash was orchestrated by Nikolai Patrushev, the head of the Security Council of Russia, who had reportedly warned Putin several times over Prigozhin's outspokenness and had helped secure Belarusian president ...
At the same time, the heads of western Russian provinces, Belgorod, Bryansk and Kursk oblasts, regularly announced supposed artillery shelling and attacks against the regions. [3] On the eve of the incident in Bryansk Oblast, on 12 May, a Russian military helicopter Mi-28 crashed in the Dzhankoi Raion of the Russian-annexed Crimea. [3] [4]
On 27 December, The New York Times reported that Azerbaijani investigators believed a Russian Pantsir-S1 air-defence system had damaged the plane before it crashed. [ 3 ] On 28 December Russian President Vladimir Putin apologised to the President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev , for the "tragic incident" involving the aircraft in Russian airspace.
23 May – A Russian An-30 military aircraft crashed while landing in Čáslav, Czech Republic. 23 were on board at the time, six of whom suffered burns, with one being left in a critical condition. The plane's front landing gear collapsed as it touched down, causing it to leave the runway and break in two, catching fire.
Bolotov hypothesized that the plane was empty and was intended to transport the bodies of soldiers killed in action, while reaffirming that rebels had shot down the plane. [9] On 7 October 2017, the Security Service of Ukraine claimed it had established the involvement of the Russian private military company Wagner Group in the downing of the ...