NSDC Secretary Danilov holds meeting on Ukrainian plane crash
"The NSDC secretary informed that President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky had a conversation with representatives of the Ukrainian expert group and thanked them for their work," the report says.
Chief of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) Ivan Bakanov reported on the progress of the work of the Ukrainian expert group.
First Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Serhiy Yarovyi informed that experts of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine and investigators of the National Police collected DNA samples of relatives of the dead and sent an electronic DNA-formula this morning to Ukrainian experts working at the scene of the tragedy in Tehran. "We expect the Iranian side to identify the bodies and return them to Kyiv," he said.
According to First Deputy Prosecutor-General of Ukraine Vitaliy Kasko, work is ongoing on qualifying the criminal acts that led to the tragedy.
The meeting also covered the issue of that Ukrainian experts are working on decoding the information contained in the black boxes from the UIA Boeing 737 plane.
The NSDC secretary noted that the public will be promptly provided with information on the results of the crash investigation.
As reported, a Ukraine International Airlines plane (flight PS752), en route from Tehran to Kyiv, crashed shortly after take-off from Tehran Imam Khomeini International Airport at about 06:00 Tehran time (04:30 Kyiv time) on Wednesday, January 8. There were 176 people on board the aircraft. All of them died. The crash killed 11 Ukrainians (two passengers and all nine crew), 82 Iranians, 63 Canadians, ten Swedes, four Afghans, three Germans, and three Britons.
On January 11, Iran admitted that its military had accidentally shot down a Ukrainian passenger jet.
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) accepted full responsibility for the downing of a Ukrainian airliner near Tehran.
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