Russia’s Investigative Committee confirmed the crash and stated it had opened an inquiry right into a flight security violation.
News company Tass reported that communication with the plane was misplaced at about 18:00 native time (15:00 GMT) on Tuesday, and the wreckage was discovered following a search and rescue effort.
Ukraine has not commented on the crash.
The An-26 is a Soviet-era plane primarily used in a military capability to move heavy cargo and smaller numbers of passengers over a short-to-medium distance. It is manufactured by the Ukrainian aerospace firm Antonov.
The planes have been used for the reason that late Sixties, and have been concerned in a number of lethal crashes.
Twenty-six people, mostly cadets, had been killed when a Ukrainian An-26 got here down in (*29*) in 2020. The following 12 months, 28 individuals had been killed in a crash in the Russian Far East and in 2022, one individual was killed in a crash in Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia area.
Fighting between Ukrainian and Russian forces has been ongoing in Crimea since Moscow launched its full-scale invasion 4 years in the past.
Ukrainian strikes have largely focused Russian military bases in the peninsula, which borders the partly Russian-occupied Kherson area in southern Ukraine.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has repeatedly demanded Russia withdraw from Crimea as a part of a ceasefire. In November, a US-backed peace plan proposed Kyiv would cede management of Crimea.
