Secretary of the NSDC of Ukraine Oleksiy Danilov met with representatives of the security and defense sector authorities on the UIA plane crash

Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Oleksiy Danilov held a working meeting with representatives of the security and defense sector authorities on the crash of the Ukraine International Airlines plane in Iran.

The NSDC Secretary informed that President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy had a conversation with the representatives of the Ukrainian expert group and thanked them for their work.

Head of the Security Service of Ukraine Ivan Bakanov reported on the progress of the work of the Ukrainian expert group. First Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Sergiy 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 Attorney General of Ukraine Vitaliy Kas'ko, work is ongoing on qualifying the criminal acts that led to the tragedy.

The meeting also covered the issue of that now Ukrainian experts are working on deciphering the information contained in the black boxes of the Boeing 737 flight PS 752 aircraft.

The NSDC Secretary noticed that the public will be promptly provided with information on the results of the crash investigation.