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At least 38 people were killed in a road traffic accident in Brazil on Saturday when a packed bus collided with a truck and burst into flames in the state of Minas Gerais, local officials have reported. According to the state’s fire department, cited by AP, another 13 people were …

An Antonov An-2 single-engine plane that went missing over Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia’s Far East on Thursday has been found, and all three aboard survived the crash, emergencies services have said. The Soviet-designed aircraft, owned by the company Fieravia, signaled that it was conducting an emergency landing four days ago, …

At least two people are confirmed to have died in a train crash in Russia’s northern Komi Republic on Wednesday, Russian Railways has said. The train was carrying 215 people from the city of Vorkuta above the Arctic circle to the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk when it derailed. Nine …

The Russian IL-76 heavy transport plane was carrying 65 captured Ukrainian military personnel when it crashed in Belgorod Region some 90km (55 miles) from the Ukrainian border. The Russian Defense Ministry has claimed that the aircraft was brought down by Kiev’s forces. Here is what we know so far about what …

A Russian heavy transport plane carrying several dozen Ukrainian prisoners of war has crashed in Belgorod Region, which borders Ukraine, Moscow has confirmed. Local Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov has said all those on board were killed. In a statement on Wednesday, the Russian Defense Ministry said that an IL-76 cargo aircraft …

An Airbus A320 en route from Sochi to Omsk declared a mid-flight emergency on Tuesday morning and was redirected to an alternate airfield in Novosibirsk, but failed to reach it, emergency services told Russian media.  The aircraft was forced to perform an emergency landing in a field 180km away from …

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Evgeny Prigozhin was a man of many talents who made a “significant contribution” to the struggle against neo-Nazis in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday, commenting on the plane crash that reportedly killed the Wagner Group head. Speaking with journalists at the Kremlin, Putin said that he had …

Russian authorities have confirmed that a private jet with Wagner Group founder Evgeny Prigozhin listed as a passenger crashed between Moscow and St. Petersburg on Wednesday, killing all on board. What details have been confirmed?  The Russian Emergencies Ministry confirmed that the jet plunged to the ground in Tver Region, …

The head of Russia’s Roscosmos space agency, Yury Borisov, has named the main cause behind the failure of the Luna-25 Moon mission. The probe failed to shut off its engines in time and veered from its intended orbit, the space boss explained. “Unfortunately, the engine shutdown did not happen normally, …