An Ukrainian Armed Forces transport worker crashed while trying to escape from Russian air defense
A Ukrainian An-26 military transport plane crashed in the Zaporozhye region.
The press service of the Zaporozhye military-civil regional organization reported this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“This morning an An-26 plane crashed in the Volnyansky district of the Zaporozhye region. The aircraft was performing a technical flight. There are casualties,” the message says.
In turn, military observer Boris Rozhin draws attention to the fact that the plane “fell a victim of an anti-aircraft maneuver.”
“The pilot drove the car very low above the ground to avoid being hit by air defense systems of the Russian Armed Forces, as a result of which he got caught on a power line, which led to the crash of the car. According to official statements from Ukraine - 1 dead, 2 wounded. How much actually remains to be seen,” the expert writes in his Telegram channel.
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