Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky acknowledged the recording’s authenticity in a report aired by a Ukrainian television channel on Sunday night. In Tehran, the head of the Iranian investigation team, Hassan Rezaeifar, yesterday acknowledged the recording was legitimate and said that it was handed over to Ukrainian officials. “A series of lights like ... yes, it is missile, is there something?” the pilot calls out to the controller. The pilot responds that he saw the light by the Payam airport, near where the Revolutionary Guard’s Tor M-1 anti-aircraft missile was launched from. Ukrainian investigators were yesterday to travel to Tehran to participate in the decoding effort, but Zelensky insisted on bringing the so-called “black boxes” back to Kiev.
