A Ukrainian military plane with 14 people onboard has crashed amid an ongoing attack by Russian troops. According report by AFP, Ukrainian emergency services, said the plane crashed near the capital Kyiv.
According to Daily Post the plane crashed in the south of Kyiv on Thursday, the emergency services reported.
The service reported that it was “still determining how many people died.”
The crash took place about 20 kilometres (12 miles) south of Kyiv, amid reports of several locations around the city being under attack by Russia.
The Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a military action in Ukraine in the early hours of Thursday which has been condemned by the United States and the European Union.
Putin had listed three conditions to put an end to the standoff, urging Kyiv to renounce its bid to join NATO, to partially demilitarize and to recognize Russia’s sovereignty over Crimea, the Black Sea peninsula that Moscow annexed from Ukraine in 2014 demands which Ukraine has boldly rejected.
Up to now at least about 40 people have been killed in the ongoing attacks by Russian troops in Ukraine. The Ukraine Army had earlier claimed that a Russian plane was shot down over Luhansk Region.
Russia also confirmed taking out military infrastructure at Ukraine's air bases 'suppressing' its air defences.
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