The ministry said that "on the section of the Tavrida highway from Belogorsk to Simferopol, a Mercedes sprinter minibus crashed into a standing KamAZ truck with a trailer."

"As a result of the accident, eight passengers of the minibus were killed, seven were injured," the Ministry of Emergency Situations said.

All the circumstances of the incident are being investigated.

At the end of June, URA.RU reported an accident on the Tyumen-Khanty-Mansiysk federal highway, which resulted in the death of a family of three.