The Ministry of defence of Ukraine: militia knocked in Lugansk aircraft with the military
The Ministry of defence of Ukraine informed about the fact that militia knocked coming in for a landing in the Lugansk airport the plane with Ukrainian military, some killed.
" Fire from anti-aircraft guns and heavy machine gun struck military transport aircraft of the Air Forces of the military might of Ukraine Il-76, who carried out transportation of the personnel to the rotation. In the cabin there were military personnel, machinery, equipment and food, according to the report, the Ministry of defence. The exact number of dead as long as unknown.
they say that the plane was shot down in the night of Saturday at landing approach at the airport of Lugansk.
Il-76 - Soviet and Russian heavy military transport aircraft developed by the Ilyushin design Bureau. The crew of 7 people. Can carry 167 soldiers with weapons.
numerous anti-government protests were started in the South-Eastern regions of Ukraine at the end of February 2014. It has been the response of local citizens at the forcible change of power in the country and the subsequent attempt to cancel the Verkhovna Rada of the law, giving the Russian language regional status. The center of confrontation between Pro-Russian-minded people with the government in Kiev has become the Donbass. About that, how is the conflict in the South-East of Ukraine.
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