“The chairman of the Investigative Committee of Russia instructed to transfer the criminal case of an accident in the Pskov region, where eight citizens of Ukraine were killed in a collision of a minibus with a heavy truck, to the central office of the department for further thorough investigation,” TASS quoted the official representative of the Investigative Committee of Russia Svetlana Petrenko.

On the night of February 13, in the Pustoshkinsky district of the Pskov region, an accident occurred with the participation of a minibus and a truck.

Eight citizens of Ukraine became victims of a head-on collision, two more people - a Ukrainian and a Belarusian - were hospitalized in a state of moderate severity. A criminal case has been instituted on the fact of an accident.

The head of the Pustoshkinsky district, Svetlana Vasilkova, said that a minibus that collided with a heavy truck was moving along the oncoming lane at the time of the accident.