A two-seat Sukhoi Su-34 fighter-bomber crashed Saturday in Russia’s Bryansk region, nearly 400 kilometers southwest of Moscow. Hours earlier, an Mi-8 helicopter was shot down in the same area, according to videos circulating the internet.
Russia’s state news agency TASS quoted an emergency services official on Saturday as saying preliminary information indicated that the engine of the Mi-8 transport helicopter caught fire before the crash.
Helicopter hit by missile?
However, one of the videos only shows a helicopter exploding in mid-air and falling to Earth in flames. Reactions to the clip said it was a Russian-built Mi-8 shot down by a missile.
The Belarusian media Nexta, based in Warsaw, reports on Twitter that the Russian media say that “special services are looking for saboteurs in the Bryansk region who may have been involved in the attacks on the Mi-8 and Su-34. ”
Shot down by his own flak?
A video embedded in the tweet is said to show the crash of the Russian plane and the burning remains of the plane on the ground, which crashed like a rock. It is said that an “interception plan” has been introduced in the Bryansk region. “Russian air defense is the best saboteur,” the editors of “Nexta” joked in the tweet (see below).
The Sukhoi Su-34 is a two-seat fighter-bomber developed in the Soviet Union by the Sukhoi Design Bureau and entered serial production in April 2006. Deliveries to the Russian Air Force began just over a year later.
Ukraine has been fighting off a Russian invasion with Western help for more than 14 months. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has repeatedly promised victory for Ukraine with full repatriation of all areas this year. However, Russian troops currently occupy about 20 percent of Ukrainian territory.
Source: Krone
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