During the night of June 13, three airplanes should have landed in the Luhansk airport. The first landed successfully. The second was shot down by pro-Russian forces, the third returned to its point of departure, Melitopol. As a consequence of the second plane that was destroyed, the tragedy resulted in 49 deaths. However, the death toll could have been 200 people. It was only by pure luck that a part of the military servicemen went via Infantry fighting vehicles.
Due to the tragedy, June 15 is declared a day of mourning in Ukraine. Also, as a result of this attack and these deaths, today protestors threw stones and smoke bombs and overturned cars at the Russian embassy in Kyiv.
Journalist Vitaliy Portnikov, in response to these protests outside the Russian embassy:
“Anybody who feels hidden malevolent satisfaction with what is happening near the Russian embassy in Kyiv should consider who is benefitting from the fact that the main news item on TV channels worldwide will be coverage of that event, and not the tragedy of the Ukrainian plane in Luhansk and the evidence of the Russian origin of the weapons discovered in the southeast. Let him think of the fate of our compatriots, the diplomats of Ukraine who are working in Moscow and other cities of Russia. And let him understand that this is precisely the goal — to present Ukraine as a country of “scumbags” where only Russia can restore order and which only the Kremlin can protect from the righteous anger of the Russian people.”
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