Tuesday's Il-76 crash comes around six weeks after another Russian transport aircraft was shot down near the Ukrainian border. Moscow said the plane was carrying 65 Ukrainian prisoners of war.

Russia accused Ukraine of shooting down an Il-76 transport aircraft carrying prisoners of war. Ukrainian outlets said Ukraine shot down the plane, but that it had missiles aboard rather than ...

A Russian Il-76 military jet that crashed near Ukraine's border was carrying 65 captured Ukrainians, Russian authorities claimed. "At about 11.00 Moscow time, an Il-76 plane crashed during a ...

March 12 (UPI) --A Russian Il-76 military transport plane crashed soon after takeoff Tuesday near the city of Ivanovo, killing 15 people on board, according to the Russian Ministry of the Interior.

The four-engine Il-76 is a heavy-lift transport plane that has been in service since the 1970s with the Soviet and then Russian air force. Tuesday’s crash came on a day when the Defense Ministry ...

The plane is designed to transport military equipment, armed personnel, and large vehicles. The IL-76MD-90A is an upgraded version of the iconic, Soviet-designed Il-76, one of the biggest planes ...

February 17, 2024: The Il-76 transport is 97-ton four engine jet aircraft that can carry 97 tons of cargo. More often the cargo weighs no more than 52 tons which allows for a range of 4,400 kilometers ...

Ukrainian Video Shows Destruction Of Il-76 Aircraft – Contradicting The Kremlin’s Claims. ... in which two Il-76 transport aircraft were destroyed and two others seriously damaged. ...

The Coordination Headquarters promised to keep relatives informed as soon as reliable information regarding the Il-76 incident appears. Recall that on the morning of February 24, information appeared ...

T he Russian Ministry of Defense has incurred damages amounting to 130 million rubles because of the supply of defective aircraft parts for the Il-76 military transport aircraft, as reported by ...

A Planet Labs satellite image showing the crash site of the Russian Il-76 military transport plane has been published by Schemes, a project from Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s Ukrainian Service.