The military worked under contract to the Ministry of Defense of the Congo. About this on Sunday, October 1, told a source in the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.

According to the source, the tragedy occurred in the vicinity of Kinshasa. It is likely that the military transported the armed forces of the Congo. Due to technical problems the aircraft caught fire and fell, - explained the source.

In turn, the press secretary of the Ukrainian national peacekeeping contingent of the United Nations in the Congo, Victor Anufriev, said that the day before Ukrainian peacekeepers had seen the plane with which the tragedy occurred and already then he was in a faulty condition. Literally recently in the city of Bukavu in the same plane there were malfunctions with the chassis, "he explained..

Recall, as reported URA-Inform, cargo military aircraft in the Congo fell on Saturday.

According to a source in the Congo air agency, it was an An-12 military aircraft that was heading for the eastern city of Bukavu and crashed near the departure site.