“The operation to retrieve eight bodies from the area where the Antonov plane crashed has been completed.
They are being transferred to the Komotini hospital,” the Greek public television ERT said in a statement.
After a forensic medical examination, the corpses will be handed over to representatives of Ukraine in Greece.
Earlier it was reported that an aircraft of the An family crashed to the west of the city of Kavala in the east of the country.
On the morning of July 17, investigation of the crash site began.
Serbian Defense Minister Nebojsa Stefanovich said that the Ukrainian An-12 aircraft that crashed in Greece was carrying 11.5 tons of defense products from Serbia to Bangladesh.