At least 49 people died Saturday, June 14 when pro-Russian rebels shot down a Ukrainian military transport plane in the separatist eastern region of Lugansk, a military spokesman told AFP.
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Agence France-Presse: 49 killed when Ukraine military plane downed – defence spokesman
A pro-Russia militant shoots from a loft of a residential building at borderguards defending the Federal Border Headquarters building in the eastern Ukrainian city of Lugansk on June 2, 2014.
