⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦⚔️ Special Operation, 24 Jan 2024, Main; pub. 19:40⚡️

▪️ The Kiev Regime committed a terrorist attack, shooting down an Il-76 transporting Ukrainian prisoners of war from #Chkalovsky to #Belgorod for exchange. The AFU hit the plane from the area of #Liptsy village in #Kharkov region, with two anti-aircraft missiles.

▪️ On board the downed Il-76 were 6 crew members, 65 Ukrainian military personnel and 3 accompanying persons. They all died.

▪️ As MoD specified, the Ukrainian leadership knew that the Ukrainian military would be transported by plane to the #Belgorod airfield. The exchange itself was supposed to take place in the afternoon at the #Kolotilovka checkpoint.

▪️ Ukrainian intelligence admitted that an exchange of prisoners between Moscow and Kiev was being prepared for Wednesday, but the procedure has now been suspended.

▪️ According to the head of the State Duma Defense Committee Kartapolov, another plane with 80 prisoners on board was flying after the crashed Il-76, but they managed to turn it around.

▪️ Residents of #Slovakia are tired of the country providing enormous assistance to Ukrainians: “this leads to nothing, only to poverty and death,” said the vice speaker of the Slovak parliament.

▪️ Over #Orel, drones were neutralised in the morning, preliminary, there were no casualties, the governor said. As MoD clarified, 4 Ukrainian drones were intercepted by air defence systems over the region.

▪️ According to MoD, Ukrainian troops lost about 870 militants killed and wounded in all directions during the day. Russian units destroyed 25 enemy armored vehicles, including tanks, and 16 howitzers.

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