According to official information, Kaliningrad is in the Russian Baltic Sea exclave a Russian fighter plane crashed during a training flight. “The crew of the plane died”the Russian Ministry of Defense announced on Saturday, according to the Interfax agency.
It was initially unclear how many inmates were involved. The exact crash site was also not mentioned. The Sukhoi Su-30 machine was flying over an uninhabited area when technical problems arose, it said.
Russia has been waging a war of aggression against neighboring Ukraine for more than 17 months. However, Russian fighter jets have crashed on their own territory several times in the past due to technical problems.
The most serious incident of this kind occurred in October 2022, when a Su-34 fighter-bomber crashed into a residential building in the southern Russian city of Yeysk. More than a dozen people were killed. (dpa)
