A Russian fighter plane has crashed into a house on a residential street in Siberia, killing both pilots.
Governor Igor Kobzev said the plane crashed into a two-storey house in the remote city of Irkutsk, but no one on the ground was injured.
RussiaThe Emergency Situations Ministry said the Su-30 fighter jet crashed during a training flight and fell on top of the wooden building, causing a massive fire.
Footage shows firefighters desperately trying to put out the blaze before it spreads to more homes.
The crash is the second of its kind in six days and comes less than a week after another Russian fighter jet crashed near an apartment building in the Sea of Azov port of Yeysk.
Although the pilot managed to hit the ejection seat and parachute to safety, the plane exploded in a massive fireball, killing 15 and injuring another 19.
The Su-34 is a fighter-bomber piloted by two pilots and often used to hit ground targets.
They have been used extensively by Russian forces in Ukraine since the beginning of the conflict and have been responsible for many bombings of civilian buildings.
According to Air Forces Monthly, there have been two other cases this year where Su-34s have crashed that had nothing to do with enemy fire.
Open-source intelligence analysis by Oryx has documented that at least 16 additional Su-34 bombers have been lost by Russian forces since they first invaded Ukraine nearly eight months ago.
Both attacks come as dozens of Ukrainian cities were plunged into darkness ahead of a series of attacks on energy infrastructure that have seen Kiev lose up to a third of its power plants.
Power outages were reported this week in parts of the capital, the Zhytomyr region west of the capital and Dnipro due to rocket attacks by Russian bombers.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said the Russian leader Vladimir Putin continued to torture the country to terrorize and kill civilians.
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