Russian military plane with more than 60 people on board crashes in Belgorod region near Ukraine border
Ukrainian news outlet Ukrainskaya Pravda has withdrawn its claim that Ukraine shot down the Russian Ilyushin plane which crashed this morning in Belgorod. It quoted sources in Ukraine’s general staff who said the military aircraft was carrying S-300 missiles. It has now added a correction saying that the sources did not “indicate” Ukrainian involvement
Reuters reports that Italy denied a Russian claim that an Italian military officer was killed in Ukraine on Wednesday, calling it fake news used as a weapon for psychological warfare.