The accident has soured diplomatic relations between Greece and Serbia on one hand, and Greece and Ukraine on the other. None of the crew survived the plane crash and munitions exploded for hours Image: llias Kotsireas/AP Photo/picture alliance Largest arms producer in the region The crash near Kavala was devastating and munitions continued to explode into the next day. The pilot reported engine problems shortly after takeoff, while flying over the northern Aegean Sea. An emergency landing was no longer possible. The official country of destination for the munitions was Bangladesh. The person behind the weapons' production is reportedly Slobodan Tesic, allegedly one of the biggest arms dealers in the Balkans and a long-term presence on US sanctions lists. The plane had taken off from the city of Nis, in southern Serbia, and was carrying 11.5 tons of Serbian-made mortar rounds and mines. In the late evening of July 16, 2022, a Ukrainian Antonov An-12 transport plane crashed near the city of Kavala, in northeastern Greece, killing all eight Ukrainian crew members. Serbian mortars and mines, sold by a mysterious arms dealer and supposedly bound for Bangladesh, then transported by a Ukrainian plane that crashed in Greece - it sounds like the plot of a political thriller.
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