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Ukraine: Russian rocket may have downed military plane
[CBSNEWS] A Ukrainian military transport plane was shot down Monday along the country's eastern border with Russia, the defense minister said.Rebels in conflict-wracked eastern Ukraine immediately grabbed credit for downing the Antonov AN-26 but Ukrainian Defense Minister Valeriy Heletey said the rocket may have been fired from Russia. Heletey said the plane was flying at an altitude of 21,300 feet, which he said was too high to be reached with the weapons used by the separatists fighting government troops. Ukrainian authorities say plane may have been carrying around 20 people but there was no immediate word on casualties. In the last two weeks, the government has halved the territory held by pro-Russia separatists, who have been forced back into strongholds around the eastern cities of Luhansk and Donetsk. Those two mostly Russian-speaking regions have declared independence from the government in Kiev. Posted by: Fred 2014-07-17 |
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