US-Made Missile Used To Shoot Down Plane Carrying Prisoners Of War: Putin

A Russian Il-76 cargo plane crashed on January 24 with Russian authorities saying 65 Ukrainian prisoners of war were on board.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that a US-made Patriot missile was used to shoot down a plane that Moscow says was carrying captured Ukrainian soldiers.

A Russian Il-76 cargo plane crashed on January 24 with Russian authorities saying 65 Ukrainian prisoners of war were on board.

"The plane was shot down, it has already been established for certain, by an American Patriot system. This has already been established by forensics," Putin said in a televised appearance on Wednesday.