A Russian warplane has crashed into a residential building in the Siberian city of Irkutsk, killing both crew members - the second such fatal incident in a Russian residential area in six days involving a Sukhoi fighter plane. The crashes appear to reflect the growing strain that the fighting in Ukraine has put on the Russian air force. The Irkutsk governor, Igor Kobzev, said the Su-30 fighter jet came down on a private, two-storey building housing two families. There were no casualties on the ground. Irkutsk, a major industrial centre in eastern Siberia with a population of more than 600,000,…
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