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On 29 February, Russian presidential commissioner for human rights Tatiana Moskalkova said that Russia was willing to repatriate the remains of the POWs killed in the crash. In response, Ukraine's human rights ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets accused her of "speculating" on the crash, noting that Russia had not released an official passenger list or ...
[233] [234] The Russian Ministry of Defence in turn stated that no Russian Buk crossed the border with Ukraine. [234] On 25 May 2018 the governments of the Netherlands and Australia issued a joint statement in which they laid responsibility on Russia "for its part" in the crash. [17]
On the morning of 13 May 2023, an air group of four aircraft of the Russian Air Force crashed almost simultaneously in the Bryansk Oblast of Russia: two Mi-8 helicopters, a Su-34 fighter-bomber and a Su-35 fighter. [1] [2] According to Baza, nine people were killed: three crew members each in two Mi-8s, two Su-34 pilots and a Su-35 pilot. [1]
This is a list of Ukrainian, Russian and Russian-separatist aircraft losses during the Russo-Ukrainian War based on visual evidences or official confirmation from involved parties. It includes helicopters , fixed-wing aircraft and drones (UAVs), and losses from the War in Donbas , the current Russian invasion of Ukraine and the Wagner Group ...
Bolotov hypothesized that the plane was empty and was intended to transport the bodies of soldiers killed in action, while reaffirming that rebels had shot down the plane. [9] On 7 October 2017, the Security Service of Ukraine claimed it had established the involvement of the Russian private military company Wagner Group in the downing of the ...
On 27 December, The New York Times reported that Azerbaijani investigators believed a Russian Pantsir-S1 air-defence system had damaged the plane before it crashed. [ 3 ] On 28 December Russian President Vladimir Putin apologised to the President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev , for the "tragic incident" involving the aircraft in Russian airspace.
Russian authorities blamed the incident on a fire and said that only one person was killed. [159] 28 March - An Su-35 crashed into the Black Sea off the coast of Sevastopol. The pilot ejected and was rescued. [160] 10 April - An Mi-24 helicopter crashed due to possible equipment failure off the Crimean coast. [161]
The aircraft crashed in Donetsk Oblast in eastern Ukraine, near the Russian border, on 22 August 2006. All 170 people on board were killed. [2] The crash was the deadliest aviation accident in 2006. At the time it was the deadliest crash in modern Ukrainian history and the second deadliest in Ukraine, after the 1979 Dniprodzerzhynsk mid-air ...