Russia has not yet provided Ukraine with any official list confirming that there were Ukrainian prisoners of war (POW) on board the Il-76 aircraft that crashed in Belgorod Oblast in late January, chief Ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets said on March 1. Lubinets’s statement came after his Russian counterpart, Tatyana Moskvlakova, claimed Moscow’s readiness to hand over the bodies of allegedly killed Ukrainian POWs to Kyiv. Russia has alleged that the Russian military aircraft that crashed on Jan. 24 was destroyed by Ukrainian forces and that it was carrying 65 captured Ukrainian fighters. According to …
