At least 22 people including Army cadets are killed as military plane crashes in Ukraine with two more people left seriously injured
At least 22 people including military cadets were killed and two others seriously injured on Friday when a Ukranian air force plane crashed near Kharkiv in the east of the country, the interior ministry said.
The transport plane was carrying a total of 28 passengers when it crashed and burst into flames in the town of Chuhuiv in Ukraine.
Deputy Interior Minister Anton Gerashchenko said: 'Twenty-two people died, the search for two other people is continuing'.
The transport plane was carrying a total of 28 passengers when it crashed and burst into flames in the town of Chuhuiv in Ukraine
Deputy Interior Minister Anton Gerashchenko said: 'Twenty-two people died, the search for two other people is continuing'
Wreckage of an AN-26 military plane seen after it crashed in the town of Chuguyiv after it crashed and burst into flames on Friday night
The transport plane was carrying a total of 28 passengers when it crashed, including 21 military students and seven crew, he said.
'It's a shock,' he added. 'At the moment it's impossible to establish the cause' of the crash.'
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he would travel to the region on Saturday.
'We are urgently creating a commission to investigate all the circumstances and causes of the tragedy,' he wrote on Facebook.
Firefighters at the crash site of the Antonov An-26 plane on Friday night as they desperately tried to extinguish the flames
It took firefighters about an hour to put the burning wreckage of the plane out
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he would travel to the region on Saturday. 'We are urgently creating a commission to investigate all the circumstances and causes of the tragedy,' he wrote on Facebook
The Antonov-26 transport aircraft crashed at around 8:50 pm local time (5.50GMT), two kilometres from the Chuhuiv military air base, the emergency services said
The town of Chuhuiv is around 30 kilometers southeast of Kharkiv and 100 kilometres west of the front line with the pro-Russian separatists
Pictured is a Slovak AIrforce Antonov AN-26 troop carrier aircraft (the same type which crashed last night in Ukraine)
The Antonov-26 transport aircraft crashed at around 8:50 pm local time (5.50GMT), two kilometres from the Chuhuiv military air base, the emergency services said.
The plane caught fire after the crash and was extinguished after one hour.
The town of Chuhuiv is around 30 kilometers southeast of Kharkiv and 100 kilometres west of the front line with the pro-Russian separatists.