Russian strike jet crashes into an apartment building in Yeysk - Euronews

Russian quality agencies person reported that astatine slightest 13 radical died erstwhile a warplane crashed connected Monday into a residential country successful the Russian larboard metropolis of Yeysk aft suffering motor failure. 

The clang ignited a monolithic blaze that engulfed respective floors of a nine-story flat building.

"Rescuers person finished searching the rubble (...) A full of 13 radical died, including 3 children, portion 19 radical were injured," the Emergency Situations Ministry said, quoted by Russian agencies.

The metropolis is separated from occupied Russian territory successful confederate Ukraine by a constrictive agelong of the Sea of Azov.

A Russian Su-34 fighter-bomber came down aft 1 of its engines caught occurrence during takeoff for a grooming mission, the Russian defence ministry said.

It said some unit members bailed retired safely, but the level crashed into a residential area, causing a occurrence arsenic tons of substance exploded connected impact.

Authorities said they reserved exigency rooms and operating halls astatine section hospitals and scrambled aesculapian aircraft. 

At slightest 17 apartments were said to person been affected by the fire, and astir 100 were said to person been evacuated.

The Kremlin said Russian President Vladimir Putin was informed astir the clang and ordered the ministers of wellness and emergencies, on with the section governor, to caput to the site.

Regional Governor Veniamin Kondratyev said exigency services were moving to enactment retired the fire.

Videos posted connected Russian messaging app channels showed a monolithic occurrence engulfing an flat gathering and large bangs from the evident detonation of the warplane's weapons.

Yeysk, a metropolis of 90,000, is location to a sizeable Russian aerial basal and grooming centre. 

The Su-34 is simply a supersonic twin-engine onslaught pitchy equipped with blase sensors and weapons that has been a cardinal onslaught constituent of the Russian aerial force. 

It archetypal flew successful 1990, but it lone entered into work 26 years later, successful 2014. The craft has seen wide usage during the warfare successful Syria.

Russia was thought to person astir 140 operational Su-34s anterior to its full-scale penetration of Ukraine successful precocious February.

Monday's mishap marked the 10th reported non-combat clang of a Russian warplane since Moscow sent its troops into Ukraine.