Il-76 plane crash in Luhansk

June 14, 2014, Luhansk.

The video shows the consequences of the accident caused by the shooting down of a Ukrainian Il-76 near the Luhansk sabotage group during landing at Luhansk airport.

Comment by ATO spokesman Vladislav Seleznyov.

Reference: On June 14, 2014, near Luhansk, pro-Russian militants shot down a Ukrainian military transport aircraft IL-76 from an anti-aircraft missile system. It was landing under the blockade of the airport. All 49 people on board were killed - 40 paratroopers of the 25th Brigade and 9 crew members. In 2017, the SBU established the involvement of mercenaries from the Wagner PMC and Major General Yevhen Nikiforov of the Russian Armed Forces as the coordinator of the attack. In 2021, three organizers of the terrorist attack - Igor Plotnytsky, Andriy Patrushev and Oleksandr Gureev - were sentenced to life in absentia.