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A military plane crashed in Ukraine. According to initial findings, 22 people died in the accident. The background is still unclear.
At least 22 people were killed in the crash of an Antonov AN-26 military plane in eastern Ukraine. The civil defense announced in Kiev on Friday evening. Consequently, there were also survivors of the Chuhujiw disaster in the Kharkiv region. Authorities spoke of a total of 28 people on board the machine. Two wounded were saved.
The cause of the accident was initially unclear. President Volodymyr Zelenskyi announced that this Saturday he would get an idea of the local situation. The governor of the area, Alexej Kutschera, announced that there were deaths and injuries. He was on his way to the crash site, he wrote on the Telegram news channel. The Ukrainian army also confirmed the accident on Facebook.
It was said that on board there were mainly students from the University of the Air Force. It should have been a training flight. The aircraft crashed on the approach to the runway.
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.
21 students on board
A total of seven crew members and 21 college students were on board, he said. 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.
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.
