At least 22 people have died in a military plane crash in Ukraine, the country's interior ministry has confirmed.
Two other people are severely injured and four more are still unaccounted for, the ministry said in a statement.
The crash occurred at around 20:50 local time (19:50 CET) near the eastern city of Chuhuyiv, in the Kharkiv region, some two kilometres away from a military airport.
The 28 people on board the AN-26 plane were military pilots and cadets of the Kozhedub Air Force University. The ministry had initially said that 24 people were on the plane when it crashed.
