Not only did Russia shoot at the plane; after it was hit, Russian authorities did not allow the plane to make an emergency landing on a Russian airfield or airport. How’s that for cold-hearted and cynical?

2 minutes ago, rudi49jr said:

Not only did Russia shoot at the plane; after it was hit, Russian authorities did not allow the plane to make an emergency landing on a Russian airfield or airport. How’s that for cold-hearted and cynical?

How's adding to the above additional detail, that throughout the flight over the Caspian sea, the plane's GPS was jammed?

 

Nearly looks like the plane was accidentally shot at, after realising the error, to hide evidence, every effort was put into having plane crash into the sea. That's vile.

2 hours ago, tomazbodner said:

That's vile.

It’s what Russia does best. Keep finding new lows of the depravity that they’re capable of. Latest I heard was that they’re burning the faces of North Korean soldiers that were killed in and around Kursk, just to try to hide the fact that North Korean soldiers are actually fighting there for Russia. Russia has really become the evil empire.

Yes, they shot it down and then tried to cover it up. They do have form on this of course.  No subsequent help given to the pilots.  The Russians are lying criminals and psychopaths, followed by a bunch of Lemmings as a population.  The sooner NATO  goes to War and put an end to this regime, and its supporters,  the better.  We should have done it in 1945, look where a 'civilized approach' with this State  has got the Western democracies, add the North Koreans, Iran and China to this short list.