The head of the self-proclaimed Lugansk people's Republic Valery Bolotov confirmed that the Ukrainian Il-76 aircraft was shot down exactly militia.
" 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. First day of Sunday mass media referring to the messenger of the militia said that the Il-76 with the Marines in the cabin could be shot down by Ukrainian law-enforcers, it is as if the analysis confirms the video recording of the incident and the proposed location of the missile launch. 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. Yesterday it was announced that in the Lugansk airport was an armed clash between Dnipropetrovsk and Lviv paratroopers, besides the first, as if it raised the flag of Russia. In the night of Saturday in Lugansk crashed military transport aircraft Il-76 military power of Ukraine, downed from MANPADS Lugansk militia. According to the information of the Ministry of defence of Ukraine, took the life of 49 people, the plane was carrying soldiers of the 25th air cavalry brigade.

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