The Russian President Vladimir Putin offered his condolences to the bereaved families on Tuesday.
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A Russian Su-34 military plane crashed into residential buildings in the city of Yeysk near the border with Ukraine on Monday, killing 15, according to Anna Minkova, deputy governor of Russia’s Krasnodar region, Tuesday, October 18. The accident also injured 43 people, including nine children. Among these forty people, 25 are still in hospital, including three in critical condition.
The investigators said they favored the trail of a “technical fault” on the aircraft, a Sukhoi 34, to explain the accident that occurred the day before in this city of 90,000 inhabitants located opposite the Ukrainian port of Mariupol, devastated by Russian forces at the start of the conflict.
The crash caused a fire in a building where about 600 residents live. According to the Ministry of Emergency Situations, quoted by Russian agencies, the fire ignited five of the nine levels of the building, covering some 2,000 m2. On social networks, images filmed by witnesses show a gigantic fire.
The Defense Ministry said the bomber pilots were able to eject. It was a training flight, according to the same source, which evokes a technical problem after that“one of the engines caught fire on takeoff”. The Investigative Committee of Russia, in charge of the main criminal investigations, however announced on Telegram the opening of a “criminal investigation”.