“About the prisoner lists. The Ukrainians agreed on them three days ago,” he wrote on his Telegram channel.
According to Simonyan, one of the dead Ukrainian soldiers, Maxim Konovalenko, had previously been included on that list, but was never exchanged.
“As for the 16 most previously released, this is another Ukrainian filler,” he emphasized.
Simonyan also urged readers not to trust fakes.
In the accident of the military transport Il-76 in the Belgorod region, 65 Ukrainian prisoners died, as well as six crew members and three companions.
The Russian Defense Ministry reported that the Ukrainian military shot down the plane with two missiles launched from the Kharkov region.
The Ukrainian prisoners were taken for the exchange, which would take place in the afternoon at the border, at the Kolotilovka checkpoint.
