A Russian military plane has crashed on the Ukraine-Russia border, with Moscow saying 65 Ukrainian prisoners of war were onboard.
Its defence ministry confirmed the Ilyushin Il-76 transporter crashed in the Russian city of Belgorod on Wednesday morning.
“They were being transported to the Belgorod region for exchange,” it added.
Another six crew members and three other people were also on board.
It said the defence department had reported a Russian Aerospace Forces commission had “already flown to the crash site in order to establish the causes of the disaster”.
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