Military intelligence: Russia shows no intent to return bodies of POWs allegedly on crashed Il-76

Or these people were murdered and they used the opportunity to target disinformation at Ukraine. It seems plausible. Fascists encourage cruelty, which tends to result in increased deaths, and Russia uses every opportunity to lie and obfuscate reality so they can point back to poorly written articles decades later and claim "both sides."

I really wouldn't be surprised if Putin had them shot soon after the plane was downed as a form of retaliation.

I agree. If there were any bodies we would've seen hundreds of pictures by now.

Or the plane was filled with dead bodies of prisoners Russia tortured to death and put on the plane lnowing it would be shot down and turning them over would allow Ukraine to prove that.

Either way, the plane certainly wasn't full of living prisoners because that is what Russia said was on board.