The flight engineer who died in the Il-76 crash left behind a wife and two daughters in Orenburg. The sister of the flight engineer, Lyudmila Loginova, told RT about this.

She noted that Andrey wanted to fly since childhood, so he went to study his profession in Irkutsk. The Investigative Committee reports that the anti-aircraft missile weapons were located in the village of Liptsy, Kharkov region. Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the missiles that shot down the plane with captured Ukrainian Armed Forces military personnel were launched from Ukrainian territory.