“The catastrophe happened when the plane landed at the airfield in the city of Chuguev.
I am urgently creating a government commission to clarify all the circumstances and causes of the tragedy.
I gave the relevant instructions to the Prime Minister, "Zelensky wrote on Facebook.
As the head of the Kharkiv region Aleksey Kucher wrote on Facebook, the death toll reached 22. According to him, there were 28 people on board: seven officers and 21 cadets.
Earlier, the command of the Air Force of Ukraine confirmed the An-26 disaster near Kharkov.
The plane with cadets on board crashed during the landing approach, there are dead and injured.