Budanov made a loud statement about the plane crash — World

The head of the Ukrainian Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense, Kyrylo Budanov, said that the Baku-Grozny plane, which crashed in Kazakhstan, was shot down.

The chief military intelligence officer of Ukraine said this in a comment to the publication The War Zone.

“As far as we know, the plane was shot down by the Russian anti-aircraft missile system “Pantsir S1″ on Russian territory,” Budanov said.

A video taken by a passenger before the crash showed “shrapnel holes in the fuselage consistent with damage from a Russian surface-to-air missile,” the authors wrote with reference to the Twitter account of the Azeri Times news publication. Another video taken inside the plane also showed shrapnel damage .

Meanwhile, the video taken after the disaster also shows that the tail of the vessel is cut by fragments. On the footage where…