Tragedy has struck along the Russian lines during the siege of Ukraine as a Russian military cargo plane has reportedly crash landed in the city of Ryazan southeast of Moscow, thereby killing four crew members and injuring some five others.
The terrible incident had happened during a training flight on Friday, the defence ministry announced in a statement which was quoted by local news agencies.
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The unfortunate plane has been on a training flight, with training pilots manning it without cargo when the crew decided to land because of an engine malfunction but it was partially destroyed when it hit the ground.
“According to preliminary information, four people died as a result of a plane crash in the area of the Mikhailovsky highway in the city of Ryazan,” the regional government’s crisis unit said in a statement, as quoted by the TASS state news agency.
The defence ministry had also reported that the injured crew members were taken to hospital.
The plane was an Il-76 military transport aircraft, which was first manufactured in the Soviet Union in the late 1960s.
The aircraft crashed into a field close to residential buildings near a highway, causing a fire that has since been extinguished. No details have given about where the aircraft was headed when it crashed in Ryazan, around 200 kilometres southeast of the Russian capital.
Meanwhile, several military planes have crashed this month near Russia’s border with Ukraine, where Moscow has been engaged in ferocious fighting since invading in late February.
In another report, Olaf Scholz, the chancellor of Germany has claimed that sanctions imposed by the west on Russia were harming his nation and its allies.
However, he insisted that since freedom, democracy, and solidarity with friends and partners come at a cost, Europe and its allies would have to pay the price.
He promised that Germany will continue to support Ukraine during a speech at the Annual meeting of the Federation of German Industries on Tuesday, as reported by CNN.