Russian strategic bomber plane crashes in Siberia, Moscow’s defense ministry says

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A Russian Tu-22M3 strategic bomber plane crashed on Monday during a training flight in Siberia’s Irkutsk region, the Russian Defense Ministry said, the Interfax news agency reported.

The ministry was cited as saying that the crew had managed to eject and had survived the incident.

Unverified footage of the crash, shared on social media, showed a plane nosediving into a thickly wooded area near the banks of the Angara River, producing a huge column of smoke.

This is a developing story.

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