US experts to help investigation into how Ukrainian F16 fighter crashed

Western experts are to help find out how a Ukrainian F16 crashed (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)

US experts have joined a Ukrainian investigation into why an F16 warplane that Ukraine received from its Western partners crashed earlier this week during a Russian bombardment, the country’s air force commander said on Friday.

Meanwhile, a Russian attack on the north-eastern city of Kharkiv using powerful plane-launched glide bombs killed five people, including a 14-year-old girl on a playground, and wounded 47 others, regional governor Oleh Syniehubov said.