Moscow: The Ukrainian military used the MIM-104A guided missile of the Patriot system to shoot down a Russian Il-76 military transport aircraft last week, the RIA news agency reported Thursday.
A total of 116 fragments of two anti-aircraft missiles with inscriptions in English were found near the crash site of the plane, Russian investigators said, according to the report.
A Russian Il-76 transport aircraft with 65 Ukrainian prisoners, six crew members, and three accompanying persons on board crashed in the country’s Belgorod region last week.
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