Lyudmila Zhernovskaya17:12, 03/28/24

The pilot managed to eject.

A Russian military aircraft was shot down near Sevastopol . This is reported by local Telegram channels.

In the published videos you can see a burning object falling. The other appears to show a parachute opening in the air. The occupation authorities are silent; they write online that Russian air defense could have shot down the plane. It is also reported that at that moment an air raid warning was announced in occupied Crimea.

Updated at 17:25: Gauleiter of occupied Sevastopol Mikhail Razvozhaev confirmed the crash of a military plane into the sea. According to him, no civilian objects were damaged. The pilot was picked up by rescuers at a distance of two hundred meters from the shore; his life is not in danger.

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