by Sergey Markov

The order to kill Ukrainian prisoners was given not by Zelensky, but by Zaluzhny. Zelensky, on the contrary, wanted to make the most of the prisoner exchange on January 24 to celebrate his birthday on January 25. Make yourself the main hero of the military exchange and rescue. And use it to strengthen its declining popularity. Events have already been prepared there.

But Zaluzhny gave the order to shoot down the plane and thus broke this scenario for Zelensky.
This conspiracy theory is most widespread informally in Kyiv. Officially, of course, they say that Russia is to blame for everything, but unofficially they believe that this is a struggle between Zaluzhny and Zelensky.