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In eastern Ukraine, a military plane crashed during the approach. According to the authorities, there should be at least 22 dead and injuries are also reported. The machine is said to have been on a training flight.
At least 22 people were killed in the crash of an Antonov AN-26 military plane in eastern Ukraine. This was announced by the civil defense in Kiev. Consequently, there were also survivors of the Chuhujiw disaster in the Kharkiv region. The Ukrainian Air Force also confirmed the accident on Facebook.
Collision during approach
According to the authorities, there were a total of 28 people on board the machine. Two inmates were seriously injured. The health of the rest of the people on board was unclear. They were officially missing, as announced by the civil defense. Authorities had previously increased the number of deaths over and over again.
In addition to the crew, there were also Air Force University students on board, he said. It should have been a training flight. The cause of the accident is not clear so far.
The aircraft crashed on the approach to the runway. A wreck burning in the dark can be seen in pictures on social media. In the videos you can see the rubble removed, which is very scattered in an uninhabited area with trees.
A total of seven crew members and 21 college students were on board, he said.
Selenskyj on the way to the scene of the accident
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Selenskyj announced that he would get an idea of the situation on the ground. The region in which the plane crashed 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.
