Russian strategic bomber crashes in Siberia, one person dead, governor says
Published by Global Banking & Finance Review®
Posted on April 2, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 24, 2026

Published by Global Banking & Finance Review®
Posted on April 2, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 24, 2026

A Russian Tu-22M3 bomber crashed in Siberia, killing one crew member. The crash was due to a technical malfunction and caused no civilian damage.
MOSCOW (Reuters) -A Russian Tu-22M3 strategic bomber crashed in the Irkutsk region of southeastern Siberia due to a technical malfunction, local governor Igor Kobzev said on Wednesday.
The plane went down during a routine flight near the village of Buret in the Usolsk district, causing no damage to civilian structures, Kobzev wrote on his Telegram channel.
The four crew members ejected, and one of them died.
Kobzev did not give the exact cause of the crash.
The Tupolev Tu-22M3, or Backfire in NATO codification, is a long-range supersonic missile carrier bomber.
(Reporting by Reuters; writing by Maxim Rodionov; editing by Mark Heinrich and Hugh Lawson)
The article discusses the crash of a Russian Tu-22M3 bomber in Siberia, resulting in one fatality.
The crash occurred near the village of Buret in the Irkutsk region of Siberia.
The crash was attributed to a technical malfunction, though specific details were not provided.
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