A Russian Ilyushin Il-76 military transport plane crashed on Wednesday in the country’s Belgorod region, the Russian state-run RIA news agency quoted the Defense Ministry as saying.

Russia has accused Ukrainian forces of shooting down the military aircraft.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has called for an international investigation into the plane crash.

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    A court in St. Petersburg on Thursday sentenced a woman to 27 years in prison for her supposed role in the death of a prominent Russian military blogger in April 2023 in a cafe in the city.

    Moscow City Court on Thursday sentenced Russian nationalist Igor Girkin to four years in prison on charges of inciting extremisim over his criticism of Russia’s war in Ukraine.

    Ukraine’s SBU security service orchestrated an overnight drone attack on an oil refinery  in the southern Russian town of Tuapse, unnamed Ukrainian officials have told news agencies.

    Both black boxes of a Russian military transport plane that crashed in the Belgorod border region with Ukraine have been located and secured, Russia’s state-run RIA news agency reported Thursday, citing rescue services.

    “Despite the effective and fruitful work of air defense to repel enemy attacks, unfortunately, an industrial facility was hit in Odesa, and residential buildings and civilian infrastructure were damaged,” Kiper said.

    The United Nations Security Council will discuss the incident involving a Russian military transport plane that crashed in Russia’s Belgorod region near Ukraine.


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