Military plane crashes in Russia, killing Ukraine POWs, Moscow says
Moscow | A large Russian military transport plane crashed on Wednesday (Thursday AEDT) near the border with Ukraine killing everyone on board, the Defence Ministry said, accusing Ukraine of shooting down the plane with missiles.
The ministry said in a statement that the plane had been carrying 65 Ukrainian prisoners of war who were being transferred to the Belgorod region to be exchanged for Russian service personnel. It accused Ukrainian forces of launching two missiles from the nearby Kharkiv region of Ukraine that struck the aircraft.
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