KYIV — Russia and Ukraine traded blame and pushed dueling narratives Thursday over the downing of a Russian military plane, which Moscow said was carrying 65 Ukrainian prisoners of war who were about to be exchanged and returned home to their families. Everyone aboard was killed, Russia said.

Ukraine has not confirmed whether POWs were on board. Nor has it directly confirmed that it shot down the Ilyushin Il-76 transport plane, which crashed Wednesday in Russia’s Belgorod region, just north of the Ukrainian border.

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