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The Russian Defence Ministry accused Ukrainian forces of shooting down a Russian military transport plane, killing all 74 people on board, including dozens of Ukrainian prisoners of war. There were 65 Ukrainian prisoners, six crew members, and three guards accompanying the POWs on the Russian military’s Ilyushin Il-76 aircraft went it went down over the Belgorod region near Ukraine, the ministry said. “All occupants on board have died,” Belgorod governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said. Moscow said the Ukrainians were being taken to a planned prisoner exchange. Ukraine later confirmed following the cr…