A statement on the office's website says that nine crew and 40 service members were aboard the Il-76 plane when it went down early Saturday as it approached the airport at the city of Lugansk.
Another official, counter-terrorism spokesman Vladislav Seleznyov, was quoted by the Interfax news agency as saying the figure was preliminary.
The prosecutor's office said a criminal investigation had been opened under anti-terrorism laws.
Earlier, Ukrainian Defense Ministry said Saturday that pro-Russian separatists shot down a large military transport plane in the country's unsettled east and that service personnel aboard were killed.
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