(MENAFN- Qatar News Agency) Ev june 14 (qna) - the ukrainian prosecutor's office confirms that all 49 people on board the ilyushin-76 aircraft were killed after it was shot down by separatists near luhansk.
it said that nine crew and 40 soldiers on board were confirmed dead and that an investigation was launched.
the ukraine air force's transport plane was approaching an airport in luhansk in the east with "military personnel machinery equipment and supplies" when it came under "anti-aircraft and heavy machine gun fire" the military said online.
defense ministry spokesman vladislav seleznyov said earlier that the figures were provisional.
the area has seen weeks of clashes between security forces of the kiev central government and the militias of the self-proclaimed luhansk people's republic.
representatives of the luhansk people's republic would neither confirm nor deny the downing of the plane according to russian news agency (itar tass). (qna)
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