Tu-95 bomber crash killed eight Russian airmen, including officers — report

The Insider reports that a Russian Tu-95MS bomber that crashed on Sept. 29 in Amur Oblast carried eight military personnel rather than the six initially reported, including three aviation officers tied to missile strikes against Ukraine. The outlet named all eight: Andrei Lobanov, Vladislav Moskovskikh, Arthur Enokyan, Mikhail Kotyshev, Sergei Moisevich, Vladimir Kelip, Fedor Pavlyukov, and Andrei Gerasimov.

Three of the deceased, Lobanov, Gerasimov, and Pavlyukov, are listed in Ukraine's 'Book of Executioners' database tracking suspected war criminals. Russia's Ministry of Defense described the flight as routine training without ordnance; officials have not released findings on the cause, and the crash follows Russia's relocation of its Tu-95MS fleet to a remote Far East base after Ukraine's Operation Cobweb drone campaign.

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