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		</div><p>Searchers combing the area where a Ukrainian military aircraft crashed have found two more bodies, bringing the death toll to 26.</p>
<p>One person survived after the plane, a twin-turboprop Antonov-26 belonging to the Ukrainian air force which was carrying 20 military cadets and a crew of seven, crashed and burst into flames on Friday night.</p>
<p>The aircraft was coming in to land at the airport in Chuhuiv, about 250 miles east of the capital Kyiv, when the incident occurred.</p>
<p>Two people initially survived the crash, but one later died in a hospital.</p>
<p>Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy declared Saturday to be a day of mourning for the crash victims and ordered that flights of An-26 planes be halted pending an investigation into the cause of the crash.</p>
<p>Mr Zelenskiy, who visited the crash area Saturday, called for a full assessment of the condition of the country’s military equipment.</p>
<p>Prime minister Denis Shygal has called for an official report on the crash by October 25.</p>
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<p>In a statement released by his office, Mr Zelenskiy said: “Yesterday we lost young cadets and experienced military men, who had their whole lives and, I am sure, more than one military feat ahead of them.</p>
<p>“The whole country will mourn today with their families.”</p>
<p>Deputy defence minister Igor Starobinksy said the families of the dead would each be paid compensation of about 1,500,000 hryvna (£44,000).</p>
<p>The An-26 is a transport plane used by both military and civilian operators.</p>
<p>Nearly 1,400 of the planes were manufactured from 1969 to 1986, according to the company’s website.</p>
<p>Defence minister Andrei Taran said the plane that crashed was built in 1977.</p>
<p>An An-26 chartered by a contractor for the World Food Programme crashed on August 22 while taking off from Juba in South Sudan, killing seven people.</p>
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<p>The crash was the second large air disaster to afflict Ukraine this year.</p>
<p>In January, a Boeing 737 belonging to Ukraine International Airlines was shot down shortly after take-off from the airport in Tehran, Iran, killing all 176 people aboard.</p>
<p>The plane was shot down by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards amid high tensions after the United States killed a top general in a drone strike.</p>
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