KYIV: A Ukrainian military plane was shot down on Thursday and five people were killed, Ukrainian police and the state emergency service said, as its armed forces sought to defend against a massive Russian military operation.
The plane with 14 people aboard crashed about 20 kilometres south of Kyiv, amid reports of several locations around the city coming under attack.
Russian forces invaded Ukraine by land, air and sea on Thursday in the biggest attack by one state against another in Europe since World War Two.
