Ukraine military plane with 14 on board crashes near Kyiv, said emergency service, AFP reports.
Earlier the agency also reported that Russian forces have broken into the north of Kyiv region, Ukraine border guards were quoted as saying by AFP. Ukraine on Thursday fought Russian forces along practically its entire border with Russia, and there was fierce fighting in the regions of Sumy, Kharkiv, Kherson, Odessa and at a military airport near Kyiv, an adviser to the presidential office said.
The Ukrainian official said they feared that Russian forces could be airdropped into the country and then try to penetrate the government district in Kyiv. Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said Ukrainian border guards had abandoned all facilities at the Russian-Ukrainian border, the Interfax news agency reported.
A Ukrainian military plane was shot down on Thursday and five people were killed, Ukrainian police and the state emergency service said, as its armed forces sought to defend against a massive Russian military operation.
Russian forces invaded Ukraine by land, air and sea on Thursday in the biggest attack by one state against another in Europe since World War Two. The crisis began when Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a military operation in Ukraine to defend separatists in the Donbas region of the country, that’s in the eastern part.