Media: the Ukrainian authorities suspect of air traffic controllers in the betrayal

In Kyiv believe that the militias were able to liquidate military transport aircraft Il-76 because of information provided to them by air traffic controllers, said the acting Minister of defense of Ukraine Mykhailo Koval.
" The Bandits who fired on this plane, were very well prepared. This crime was professionally. Could be a betrayal among managers who track the flight, " said Koval in the air of television channel " Ukraine "." The militants were beaten on absolute defeat, because launched two rockets and made a volley of large-calibre machine-gun on the destruction of the plane, " added the official, quoted by the " UKRINFORM ". Remember, in the night of Saturday When landing in the Lugansk airport was hit military transport aircraft Il-76 of Ukrainian AF, transporting personnel 25th air cavalry brigade. In the salon there were 49 Ukrainian soldiers, all lost their lives. Being in the place of the crash militias suggested that transport was shot down by a Ukrainian military, but later Chapter LNR Valery Bolotov that anti-aircraft missile was fired by the militias." The Il-76 was shot down by our forces anti-aircraft defense, " said Bolotov on Sunday in Lugansk, RIA " news "." in the night of June 14, was shot down a military transport plane, which was delivered as the personnel and armoured vehicles with bullets, " he added. This Bolotov did not exclude the possibility of new provocations from Kiev. Before that Ukrainian media, citing unnamed sources reported that the militia as if scared of military pilots about the intention to shoot down the planes.


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