A Russian Su-30 fighter jet has crashed during a routine training flight in Kaliningrad, Russia's exclave on the Baltic between Poland and Lithuania, the Russian Defence Ministry said on Wednesday, according to the Kyiv Independent.
The ministry said the crew ejected and were recovered by a search-and-rescue team, and that the aircraft was unarmed. It gave no cause for the crash. A pro-Kremlin Telegram channel reported that the jet came down near Chernyakhovsk, about 90km east of the city of Kaliningrad, and that both pilots were hurt and taken to a military hospital.
The crash follows several Russian training accidents, including a Tu-95 bomber crash in the Amur region in September that killed six crew. Tension over Kaliningrad has prompted Lithuania's interior minister to call for troops on the border.
Source: Kyiv Independent
Photo: Kaliningrad trolleybus 165 2021-08 Prospekt Mira ZiU-9 051 by Artyom Svetlov, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Illustrative image of Kaliningrad.
