Military plane crashes in Moscow region

A Russian Su-57 fighter jet has crashed near Zvenigorod, in the Moscow region. Meduza reports that the account comes from the Telegram news channel Ostorozhno Novosti, along with the security-linked channels "112" and Mash. Witnesses described the aircraft going down between Zvenigorod's Shikhovo neighborhood and the village of Lutsino, and preliminary reports indicated the pilots managed to eject. Russia's Defense Ministry has not commented on the crash.

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