Russian fighter jet crashes into house as Ukraine aviation fuel depot is destroyed

Harrowing footage has captured the moment a Russian jet crashes in a residential area - only a week after another jet crash killed 14 people. Watch video.

Another Russian fighter plane has crashed after both pilots reportedly blacked out and suffocated in the cockpit before hitting a house.

The Su-30 plunged nose-first into a suburb of Irkutsk while on a test flight from the Irkutsk Aviation Plant in the latest embarrassment for Vladimir Putin, according to The Sun.

The pilots are understood to have suffocated in the plane’s cockpit – leading to the jet falling from the sky.

Videos from onlookers and dashcams caught the moment of the crash and explosion into a residential house in Siberia.

⚡️Military jet crashes in Russia, second within week.

Russia’s regional emergency service said a Su-30 fighter aircraft crashed in Irkutsk, Russia. The plane hit a residential building.

On Oct. 17, a Russian military aircraft crashed into a residential building in Yeysk. pic.twitter.com/kuY2rs8Enb

— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) October 23, 2022

Both airmen died in the fireball.

Three children were said to have been evacuated from the two-storey building hit by the out-of-control plane.

It comes after just last week an Su-34 crashed killing three children and 10 others when it slammed into a block of flats in Yeysk.

Russia has seen at least 11 military plane crashes on home soil since the war started which were unrelated to the battlefield.

The wreckage of a Sukhoi Su-34 military jet lie at the crash site in the courtyard of a residential area in the town of Yeysk in southwestern Russia. Picture: AFP

The chassis of a Sukhoi Su-34 military jet sticks out of a partially destroyed nine-storey apartment building after it crashed in a residential area. Picture: AFP

AVIATION FUEL DEPOT DESTROYED

It comes as Russia’s defence ministry said on Sunday, local time, that it had destroyed a depot in central Ukraine that was storing over 100,000 tonnes of aviation fuel.

“A fuel depot was destroyed near the village of Smila in Cherkasy region, where more than 100,000 tonnes of aviation fuel for the Ukrainian air forces was stored,” the defence ministry said in its daily briefing.

POWER CUTS IN KYIV

Meanwhile, Kyiv’s energy operator said that scheduled “stabilisation” power cuts have been introduced in the Ukrainian capital after repeated Russian strikes on the country’s energy infrastructure.

“On October 23, stabilisation shutdowns were introduced in Kyiv by national energy operator Ukrenergo to avoid accidents,” energy company DTEK said in a statement on its website.

Over a million households in Ukraine were left without electricity following Russian strikes on energy facilities across the country on Saturday, the Ukrainian presidency said.

Russia in recent days has repeatedly targeted Ukraine’s energy grid, destroying at least a third of the country’s power stations ahead of winter.

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