![Ukraine's MFA has confirmed a report on the road accident / Photo from nwroads.ru Ukraine's MFA has confirmed a report on the road accident / Photo from nwroads.ru](https://images.unian.net/photos/2020_02/1581576757-8109.jpg?0.5806830648855441)
Press Secretary of Ukraine's Ministry of Foreign Affairs Kateryna Zelenko has confirmed eight Ukrainians have been killed in a road accident in Russia's Pskov region in the early hours of February 13.
Another Ukrainian survived with moderate injuries, she said, according to the Hromadske media outlet.
"At 00:29 local time on February 13, there was an accident involving a minibus with a Ukraine-issued number plate [АО3315ВН] and a truck near the village of Ruda, Pustoshkinsky district of Russia's Pskov region," she said.
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According to the Consulate General of Ukraine in St. Petersburg, eight citizens of Ukraine were killed in the road accident; another Ukrainian, Mykhailo Zelenchuk, received moderate injuries. He was sent to a local hospital.
Ukraine's State Emergency Service reported that it was a collision of a Mercedes Sprinter minibus with a Volvo truck.
The driver of the truck, Vyacheslav Ryabov, is a citizen of Belarus. He was also hospitalized.