Russian military transport aircraft An-26 crashed on Tuesday in occupied Crimea, 23 passengers and 6 crew members were killed, informed Ukrainian Truth.
As the first news of the disaster of the Russian transport aircraft An-26 informed social media, the Ukrainian fact wrote. Their information was confirmed by the Russian Ministry of Defence, which reported that on Tuesday around 6:00 p.m. Moscow time (16:00 in Poland) had lost contact with the military transport aircraft An-26, which was making a "planned flight" over the annexed Crimea.
Today after midnight, the Russian Defence Ministry added that a search and rescue squad located the crash site of the aircraft, where six crew members and 23 passengers were killed. According to the Ministry, “there was no impact on the aircraft”. It was added that the origin of the disaster was most likely method problems.
The Ukrainian fact reported that according to information from the military blogger Fighterbomber, close to Russian air and space forces, a Russian Su-34 bomber had crashed in Crimea a small earlier. Official, Ukrainian and Russian sources did not confirm this information.
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