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Friday, September 25, 2020
Apparently, as the landing approaches, a military plane crashes in eastern Ukraine. According to the information, on board are mainly students from the University of the Air Force. Only a few survive.
At least 22 people were killed in the crash of an Antonov AN-26 military plane in eastern Ukraine. Civil defense announced in Kiev at night. According to this, several people survived the disaster in Chuhujiw in the Kharkov region, seriously injured. Authorities spoke of a total of 28 people on board. The cause of the accident is unclear.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyi announced that this Saturday he would get an idea of the local situation. There are dead and injured, said area governor Alexej Kutschera. He was on his way to the crash site, he wrote on the Telegram news channel.
The Ukrainian army confirmed the accident on Facebook. According to the armed forces, Air Force University students and the flight crew were on board the machine. It should have been a training flight. The plane crashed on the approach to the runway, it is said.
21 students on board
A wreck burning in the dark could be seen in images on social networks. A little later videos of the cleared debris appeared, which was widely scattered in an uninhabited area with trees.
A total of seven crew members and 21 college students were on board, it is said. Two inmates were seriously injured. By the way, the people on board are officially missing, as announced by the civil defense.
The region is about 40 kilometers from the Russian border in crisis-ravaged eastern Ukraine, but not in the war zone there. War officially breaks out in parts of the Luhansk and Donetsk regions, 250 kilometers from the crash site. Russian-backed separatists face Ukrainian government forces there. According to United Nations estimates, there have been more than 13,000 deaths in the war since 2014.
