Rescue teams work amidst debris after a Ukrainian plane carrying 176 passengers crashed near Imam Khomeini airport in the Iranian capital Tehran early in the morning on January 8, 2020, killing everyone on board. AFP
KIEV: Ukraine will send a team of experts to Iran later on Wednesday to investigate the circumstances of the crash of a Ukrainian airliner, President Volodymyr Zelensky said after meeting government officials.
"Our priority is to establish the truth and those responsible for this terrible catastrophe," he said in a statement on Facebook.
A plane crashed shortly after take-off from Tehran early on Wednesday, bursting into flames and killing all 176 people on board.
(Reporting by Natalia Zinets; Writing by Matthias Williams; Editing by Alison Williams)
