Russia is ready to provide international experts with evidence proving Washington’s involvement in the downing of the Il-76 plane with Ukrainian captives on board, a high-ranking Russian diplomat told the plenary session of the OSCE Forum for Security Co-operation (FSC). Ednews reports this news citing TASS.

"The United States shares responsibility for this attack, which is essentially a terrorist act, with the regime of [Ukrainian President Vladimir] Zelensky. Washington is deliberately supplying [Zelensky] with weapons to kill Russian servicemen and civilians, including children, while [the Kiev government] does not spare even its own captured soldiers," said Konstantin Gavrilov, the head of Russia’s delegation to the Vienna talks on military security and arms control. "We are ready to receive a delegation of international experts, who will be provided with material evidence proving that it is the United States who is behind this atrocity."

According to the Russian diplomat, performance data of the Patriot system that was used to shoot down the Russian plane, and the training of those who operated it "give us grounds to suggest with a great degree of certainty that the crew of this particular air defense system included US citizens."