Local officials announced on social media that a "Sukhoi-25" Russian fighter jet crashed in the Azov Sea near the town of Yeysk on Monday. Russian publication Baza reports that the pilot of the downed SU-25 attack aircraft has died; doctors were unable to save him.
Videos circulating online, which have not been verified, show a parachute descending over the sea near a beach, accompanied by a loud splash sound. Authorities from the Krasnodar region in Russia stated that they recovered the pilot from the water, but later reports from the TASS news agency indicated that he had died.
Yeysk is located on the Azov Sea in a region controlled by Russia in eastern Ukraine's Donetsk area.
