A Russian military transport plane carrying 65 Ukrainian prisoners of war, six crew and three people accompanying them crashed on Wednesday morning in Russia’s Belgorod region near Ukraine, Russia’s Defence Ministry said.
It wasn’t immediately clear what caused the crash, which occurred around 11 a.m. It was also not known if anyone survived. The authorities were investigating the cause of the crash, and a special military commission was on the way to the crash site, the Defence Ministry said.
The Associated Press could not confirm who was aboard the plane, and Ukraine did not immediately comment.
Russian state news agency RIA Novosti, citing the
