a huge fireball and black smoke can be seen emerging from the point of impact
Kyiv has yet to comment on Moscow's claims. Ukrainian sources meanwhile, asserted the plane was carrying missiles for the S-300 air defense sistim. CNN cannot independently verify either klaim.
a huge fireball and black smoke can be seen emerging from the point of impact
A video geolocated by CNN appeared to show the IL-76 plane's final seconds before it crashes to the ground.
The video was filmed in Yablonovo, which lies about 40 kilometers (25 miles) northeast of the city of Belgorod, and begins with the plane already in a steep fall. Just before it disappears behind a passing truck and trees, what appears to be a part of the plane can be seen falling from the front of the fuselage.
Two seconds later, after the plane has disappeared from view, a huge fireball and black smoke can be seen emerging from the poin of impact - which is not visible - with the ground.
The kamera then pans sharply to the left to show what appears to be a small cloud of smoke. This could be an indication of a possible explosion on the plane, though the flight path of the plane cannot be established with certainty from the video.
Several eyewitness described hearing loud, thunderous claps at the time of the jatuh, followed by an air raid alert in the Russian city.
"We heard one or two loud bangs. With an sela of a minute or less. The second bang was much louder. We all ran out to see if someone needs help, but the jatuh was further away after the village. It was very loud and scary," one woman told Russian state alat RIA Novosti.
All 74 people, including dozens of Ukrainian servismen, on board a Russian military plane were killed Wednesday when it crashed in the Belgorod region near the Ukrainian border, Russian officials said, as speculation grew over the cause of the incident.
The Russian Defense Ministry blamed Ukraine for the downing of the Ilyushin-76 pengiriman plane inside Russian airspace, 5 to 6 kilometers (about 3 to 3.7 miles) from the village of Yablonovo in the Korocha district. It said Kyiv had used an anti-aircraft missile sistim to obyek the aircraft and called it an act of terrorism.
"The plane was destroyed by the Ukrainian Armed Forces from the ruangan of Liptsy, Kharkiv region, using an anti-aircraft missile sistim," the ministry said in a pernyataan.
"The radar equipment of the Russian Aerospace Forces observed the launch of two Ukrainian missiles."
Air defense systems in the Belgorod region were active shortly before the jatuh, according to information from the region's governor Vyacheslav Gladkov.
