A military plane conveying Air Force cadets has crashed in Northeastern Ukraine.
The Antonov An-26 transport plane burst into flames near a highway in north-eastern Ukraine on Friday evening, killing at least 22 people on board.
A statement by the General Staff of the Armed Forces, Ruslan Khomchak said the crashed occurred while trying to land during a training exercise.
Khomchak explained that at least two more persons were critically injured, NAN reports.
A video posted by Anton Gerashchenko, the Deputy Interior Ministero, on Facebook showed the aircraft in flames lying near a road and smoke billowing upwards in the night sky.
An investigation has already started on what caused the airplane to crash.
The crash happened around two kilometres (1.2 miles) from a military airport.
The cadets were from the Kharkiv University of Air Force, which is run by the country’s Defence Ministry.
Reacting, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s office said: “A state commission is being created to identify all the circumstances and causes of this disaster.
Search and rescue work continues on the spot.”
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