At least three people were killed when a massive fire overtook the apartment building, according to witnesses.
Digital Desk: A supersonic fighter jet crashed into a residential building in the southern Russian city of Yeysk, closing the Ukrainian border, killing at least three people and engulfing the apartment block in flames.
On Monday, social media footage showed a massive fireball emerging from the nine-story structure.
According to the state-run TASS news agency, three people died and 19 were injured, according to Health Minister Mikhail Murashko. Six more people were reported missing by local authorities.
According to the ministry of emergency circumstances, six people were murdered. The cause of the disparity was not readily apparent.
The Sukhoi Su-34 was recognised as the aircraft. According to the defence ministry, the crew was able to eject before the plane crashed.
"A Su-34 aircraft crashed while climbing to execute a training flight from the military airfield of the southern military district," according to a ministry statement. "A fire in one of the engines on takeoff caused the aircraft to crash."
The area had been sealed off, according to Oksana, a resident who declined to disclose her last name.
"There may be an explosion." Inside, everything is on fire. "There is smoke," she said, according to the AFP news agency.
She stated she heard the news while stopped in traffic.
"I'm stunned. My youngster was home alone. "We used to go to bed scared every day – Mariupol is right across the street," she added, referring to the nearby Ukrainian port that was besieged earlier this year by Russian soldiers and is now seized by Moscow.
Firefighters battled the blaze while hearing loud blasts from the presumed detonation of the warplane's weaponry.
According to the Russian news agency Interfax, five stories of the apartment building were on fire, the upper floors fell, and 45 homes were destroyed.
According to the report, the fire spread over 2,000 square metres (21,500 square feet). A huge Russian air base is located in Yeysk, a city of around 90,000 inhabitants.
The facility regularly houses 600 people, according to the local Krasnodar authorities on Telegram. "The governor directed that the location of each resident be determined," it read.
According to the Kremlin, President Vladimir Putin was promptly informed of the disaster and dispatched the ministries of health and emergency services, as well as the local governor, to the scene.
Governor Veniamin Kondratyev announced hours after the incident that rescue workers were able to put out the fire. "Details concerning the deceased and injured are being clarified." "Ambulances are on the way," he said.
Later, Russia's Investigative Committee, which deals with serious crimes, said that it had begun a criminal investigation into the incident. "Military investigators are investigating the incident's circumstances and causes," it stated.
Yeysk is situated on the Tangarog Gulf in the Azov Sea, which connects southern Ukraine and southern Russia.
The Su-34 is a supersonic twin-engine bomber with sophisticated sensors and missiles that is a vital component of Russia's air force and has been widely deployed in Syria's war and Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
The non-combat crash of a Russian warplane on Monday was the tenth confirmed since Moscow dispatched soldiers into Ukraine on February 24.
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