Russia will not hand over bodies of POWs allegedly killed in crash – Ukraine

The Il-76 transport plane crashed in a fireball in the Belgorod region (Validated UGC video via AP)

A Ukrainian intelligence official said that the country has repeatedly asked Russia to hand over the bodies of scores of prisoners of war who Moscow claimed were killed in the downing of a Russian military transport plane by Ukrainian forces.

Andrii Yusov, the spokesman for Ukraine’s military intelligence, said in televised remarks late on Thursday that Kyiv has urged Moscow to hand over the bodies of those who died in the January 24 crash, but it has refused to do so.