Fighter Jet Crashes Into Residential Building in Southern Russia

Updates with initial casualty figures.

A military aircraft crashed Monday into a residential building in the southern port town of Yeysk in Russia’s Krasnodar region, Interfax news agency reported citing local officials.

Russia’s Defense Ministry said a Su-34 fighter jet crashed after taking off from a local airfield for a training flight, the state-run RIA Novosti reported. 

There people were “confirmed” killed and 10 injured “at the present moment,” the deputy governor of Krasnodar region, Anna Minkova, wrote on Telegram.

Footage posted on social media showed a multi-story apartment building engulfed in flames as additional explosions took place. 

The Defense Ministry said that the pilots had both ejected safely, and one