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Three people have been killed in an Mi-8 helicopter crash in Kharkiv Oblast in eastern Ukraine, the Ukrainian Interior Ministry said Sunday.

“On June 21, the regional Interior Ministry department unit received a report from the search and rescue emergencies center’s officer on duty stating that a Mi-8 helicopter of the Ukrainian emergency situations state service with a crew of three people on board has disappeared from radars in the vicinity of the village of Vasishchevo of the Kharkov Region,” the ministry said.

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