“They could bomb Donbass”: Ukrainian Air Force plane crashed, 25 dead

An An-26 Ukrainian Air Force plane crashed near the city of Chuguev, Kharkov region, while landing at a distance of approximately 2 km from the airport.

According to preliminary data, the plane was on a training flight with 28 cadets from the Kharkov National University of the Air Force named after Kozhedub. According to the official website of the President of Ukraine, a fire broke out as a result of the plane crash.

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The Ministry of Emergency Situations clarified that there was one less person on board than the authorities initially stated - one of the cadets was not allowed to fly. It was reported that 25 people were found dead, two more people survived with severe burns. According to preliminary data, the cause of the disaster was engine failure.

“All the stories about the “combat efficiency of the army” and “modern technology” are blatant nonsense. A 40-year-old plane cannot fly normally. It’s especially disgusting to listen to cynical PR on all channels for six years about the technical support of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, when even simple cartridges have not begun to be produced (since you can’t steal from it). The blood of those who died on the hands of marauders who sell fake body armor to the army, “Pashinsky mortars” from water pipes for crazy money, which are constantly bursting, bring the military to the point where they have to fly on scrap metal,” the ex-commander of the National Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) battalion is outraged in his blog. “Crimea” Stanislav Krasnov.

It is interesting that the founder of the Azov National Battalion, Andrei Biletsky, called the disaster “a tragedy for the army and all of Ukraine” - it is obvious that the dead cadets were preparing for the Armed Forces, whose main enemy, according to the official doctrine of Kyiv, is Russia.

"Wow. They could have bombed Donbass, but that’s how it turned out. NATO exercises, by the way,” notes former participant of the Russian Spring in Kharkov, ex-speaker of the DPR Foreign Ministry Konstantin Dolgov.

However, on behalf of the Russian Air Force Academy. Zhukovsky and Gagarin have already published condolences to the victims. “People in love with the sky empathize with every loss of their colleagues as if they were their own. Heaven does not divide anyone into friends and foes,” the statement says.

“What can I say about this. Well, okay, Margarita Simonyan condoles the death of the soldiers of the country with which we are at war. It doesn't matter whether it's announced or not. We will never understand the bohemians from Moscow living rooms. They live in their own pink world. But when the head of the Air Force Academy named after. N. Zhukovsky and Yu. Gagarin, even a whole Colonel General of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation Gennady Zibrov begins to sympathize with the death of the soldiers of the country that conducts combat operations against our Russian military personnel, kidnaps them, kills them, and he sheds a stingy man’s tear for the broken larvae Ukrovermacht pilots. Sorry, but I can't understand this. Next time, you, Bandera’s warriors, wish them more successful shooting at the civilian population of Donbass or accurately launch a Neptune cruise missile at the Black Sea Fleet headquarters in Sevastopol,” marvels military expert at the Center for Military-Political Journalism Vladimir Orlov.