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And Russian Su-30 fighter jet has crashed this Friday in the annexed Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea during a training flight, as confirmed by the Ministry of Defense. This is the second air disaster involving military aviation that has occurred in the region in the last three days, after the accident of a military transport with 30 occupants in which there were no survivors.
“Today around 11:00 Moscow time (08:00 GMT) a Su-30 aircraft crashed in the Republic of Crimea during a training flight“, detailed the Russian Ministry of Defense in a statement. According to the Russian military command, the aircraft “was not carrying weapons.”
“The crew catapulted and were evacuated by a ground search and rescue team. The lives of the two pilots are not in danger,” the military authorities have guaranteed.
Last Wednesday a Russian military transport plane An-26 crashed into a cliff in Crimea, killing all 30 people on board. The Ministry of Defense later ruled out that the aircraft had been shot down by the Ukrainian Army and attributed the incident to a “violation of flight rules”.
The Su-30 has been used in the Ukrainian war as a multi-role platform to launch air-to-surface missiles and in patrol duties over the Black Sea. Several units of this fighter have been shot down by Ukrainian air defense systems and have been destroyed in attacks on military bases.
The Crimean peninsula, a strategic region due to its access to the Black Sea, was illegally annexed by Russia in 2014 after a controversial referendum not recognized by the international community and Ukraine.
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