Latest Updates on Russian Defense Ministry's Tu-154 Aircraft Crash in Black Sea as World Mourning the Victims

On Sunday morning, the Russian Defense Ministry's Tu-154 aircraft en route to Syria with 92 people on board crashed into the Black Sea shortly after refueling at an airport in the Russian resort city of Adler. Fragments of the plane were discovered 1 mile from the sea shore of Sochi.

Most of the passengers were members of the famous army choir of the Russian armed forces, the Alexandrov Ensemble, who were traveling from Moscow to Hmeymim airbase in Syria to put on a New Year concert for Russian troops deployed there. Nine journalists of Russia's TV channels and famous Russian humanitarian activist Elizaveta Glinka, also known as Dr. Lisa, were aboard the plane as well.

This is What Leaders Around the World Said About Tu-154 Crash:

VANISHED RUSSIAN TU-154 AIRCRAFT POSSIBLY HAS CRASHED IN MOUNTAINS IN KRASNODAR KRAI -- REPORT

Disappeared Russian TU-154 Aircraft Possibly Crashed in Mountains – Source

The Russian aircraft TU-154 most, which had disappeared from from radar shortly after take-off in Sochi Sunday, likely has crashed in the mountains in Krasnodar Territory in the south of the country, a source in local security services told RIA Novosti Sunday.