A Ukrainian transport aircraft is shot down near Lugansk

An-26 aircraft. Photo by ITAR-TASS/Interpress/Sergey Bertov

Continuation- the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine wrote off the downed An-26 on the Russian military →

In the Luhansk region of Ukraine, an An-26 military transport aircraft belonging to the Ukrainian army is shot down near the Russian border. This was reported on Facebook by the press center of the power operation.

“At 12:30, contacting with the AN-26 Armed Forces, which performed tasks under the airborne supply of the active phase of the ATO, was lost. The reasons for the disappearance of communication are checked. A search and rescue operation is being carried out in a certain area of ​​the Lugansk region, ”the report said.

Meanwhile, at least two videos from the place of fall appeared on the network, shot by residents of the border settlement, the village of Mityakinskaya (Russia) - the village of Kruzhilovka (Ukraine).

https://www.youtube.com/embed/pfu4apcgleu

Information about the downed An-26 was confirmed by Interfax by the adviser to the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Anton Gerashchenko. “It really is shot down, it's true. Two crew members were parachuted, ”Gerashchenko said.