Russian bomber crashes during training mission
MOSCOW — A Russian nuclear-capable strategic bomber crashed Tuesday on a training mission in the country’s far east, killing six members of its crew, reports BritPanorama.
The ministry said in a statement that the Tu-95 bomber went down in an unpopulated area in the Amur region, adding that one crewmember survived the crash and was hospitalized with injuries.
The statement indicated that the bomber wasn’t carrying weapons. A team of investigators has flown to the site to determine the cause of the crash, the ministry noted.
The regional administration stated that the plane crashed near the village of Krasnoyarovo on the Zeya River near the border with China. It emphasized that the pilots “did all they could to steer the plane away from residential buildings.”
The Tu-95 is a nuclear-capable four-engine turboprop strategic bomber that has been in service since the Cold War. The Russian military has extensively used this heavy warplane to launch conventionally armed cruise missiles at Ukraine throughout the more than 4 1/2-year conflict.
Some of the Tu-95s of the Russian air force were destroyed or damaged during Ukraine’s “Spiderweb” operation in June 2025, when it utilized drones covertly launched from trucks to strike several air bases hosting long-range bombers across Russia.
