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Reuters: Poroshenko gives Putin condolences over plane crash

Published Feb. 14, 2018 at 12:28 pm

Russian Emergency Ministry rescuers unload bodies from a truck at the site of a plane crash in Ramensky district, on the outskirts of Moscow on February 12, 2018The Antonov An-148 plane went down in the Ramensky district around 70 kilometres (44 miles) southeast of Moscow after taking off from Domodedovo airport in the Russian capital and disappearing off the radar at 2:28 pm (1128 GMT) on February 11. "Sixty-five passengers and six crew members were on board, and all of them died," Russia's office of transport investigations said in a statement. / AFP PHOTO / Vasily MAXIMOV

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Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke by telephone to his Ukrainian counterpart Petro Poroshenko on February 12, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.

Peskov, on a conference call with reporters on February 14, said Poroshenko initiated the call and expressed his condolences on the deaths of 71 people in a plane crash at the weekend near Moscow.