Russian plane crash: Putin says the plane was shot down with “an American Patriot system”. The Kremlin assures that the Ukrainian army shot down the plane carrying 74 people, including, according to Moscow, 65 Ukrainian prisoners of war who were going to be exchanged.
“Ukrainian army intelligence knew that we were carrying 65 ( Ukrainian ) servicemen on board. They shot him, by mistake or on purpose, but they did it,” assured Vladimir Putin. Ukraine, for its part, has not directly commented on its potential involvement in the incident.