Russian Air Force
Branch of the Russian Aerospace Forces
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| April 2 2025 | A Tu-22M3 bomber crashed in Usolsky District, Irkutsk Oblast. Four crew members ejected from the aircraft, but tragically, one crew member died as a result of the crash. |
| March 25 2025 | An Su-25 fighter jet crashed in Primorsky Krai. The pilot successfully ejected and was rescued. |
| March 18 2025 | A Mil Mi-28 attack helicopter crashed in Leningrad Oblast, resulting in the complete loss of its crew during the incident. |
| October 10 2024 | A Yakovlev Yak-130 crashed in Volgograd Oblast. The pilot successfully ejected but was lightly injured. |
| September 19 2024 | A test of an RS-28 Sarmat missile at Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Arkhangelsk Oblast failed, destroying the launch silo and surrounding facilities, with a fire detected by NASA's FIRMS. Maxar imagery showed a wide crater where the launch silo had been. |
| August 15 2024 | A Tu-22M3 bomber crashed in Irkutsk Oblast. Four crew members ejected, with one dying and three others injured. |
| July 27 2024 | A Su-34 crashed in Volgograd Oblast. The two pilots successfully ejected from the aircraft. |
| July 25 2024 | An Mi-28 helicopter crashed due to a suspected technical malfunction in Zhizdrinsky District, Kaluga Oblast, resulting in the death of its entire crew. |
| June 2024 | Additional Su-30SM aircraft deliveries completed in mid-2024, further reinforcing the Russian Air Force's multirole fighter squadron. |
| June 11 2024 | An Su-34 crashed during a training flight in the mountains of North Ossetia, killing its two pilots. |
| May 17 2024 | A World War II 76-mm artillery shell stored in the basement of the Budyonny Military Academy of the Signal Corps in Saint Petersburg exploded during cleaning works, injuring seven soldiers. |
| April 10 2024 | An Mi-24 helicopter crashed due to possible equipment failure off the Crimean coast. |
| March 28 2024 | An Su-35 crashed into the Black Sea near Sevastopol. The pilot successfully ejected and was rescued. |
| March 19 2024 | A civilian fishing trawler was accidentally struck by a missile during Baltic Fleet exercises off Kaliningrad Oblast, killing three people and injuring four others. Russian authorities claimed only one fatality and blamed the incident on a fire. |
| March 12 2024 | A Russian Air Force IL-76 transport aircraft carrying 15 people caught fire and crashed during takeoff in Ivanovo Oblast. |
| January 8 2024 | A Russian Air Force aircraft accidentally released an FAB-250 warhead over Rubizhne, Russian-occupied Luhansk Oblast. The warhead failed to detonate and caused no casualties or damage. |
| January 2 2024 | A Russian Air Force aircraft accidentally released explosive ordnance on the village of Petropavlovka, Voronezh Oblast, resulting in four people injured and six buildings damaged. |
| December 2023 | New deliveries of Su-30SM aircraft conducted in late 2023, continuing to expand the Russian Air Force's multirole fighter capabilities. |
| December 7 2023 | A Rosgvardia member was killed and two others were injured when an explosive device 'self-detonated' during shooting drills at the Dubrovichi aviation training ground in Ryazan Oblast. |
| November 30 2023 | An accidental explosion, possibly caused by a misfire of an RPG-7 grenade launcher, killed 12 soldiers and injured eight others at the Kuzmin military training ground in Rostov Oblast. |
| October 20 2023 | A Russian Air Force Il-76 transport aircraft suffered a runway excursion during takeoff from Hisar Air Base near Dushanbe, Tajikistan, resulting in a fire that destroyed the aircraft. No injuries were reported. |
| September 20 2023 | An Su-34 crashed in Voronezh Oblast during a training mission, with the two pilots surviving. |
| September 12 2023 | An Su-24 crashed in a deserted area of Volgograd Oblast during a training mission, with pilots surviving according to Russian state news agencies. |
| August 29 2023 | An Mi-8 helicopter belonging to the FSB crashed due to a suspected technical malfunction in a forest near Prudny, Chelyabinsk Oblast, killing all three people on board. |
| August 14 2023 | An Aero L-39 Albatros crashed while landing on an airfield in Krasnodar Krai during a training mission, killing the pilot. |
| August 12 2023 | An Su-30 crashed in a deserted area of Kaliningrad Oblast during a training mission, killing the two pilots on board. Authorities blamed a likely technical malfunction. |
| July 17 2023 | An Su-25 crashed into the Sea of Azov near Yeysk, Krasnodar Krai, after experiencing 'engine failure' during a training flight, resulting in the pilot's death. |
| July 4 2023 | A MIG-31 crashed into Avacha Bay on the southeastern coast of Kamchatka during a training mission. |
| June 23 2023 | During the Wagner Group rebellion, VVS lost one Il-22M Airborne Command Post, five helicopters (three Mi-8, one Mi-35M, and one KA-52), with up to 29 crew potentially killed. This included two of Russia's newest Mi-8MTPR-1 Electronic Warfare variants. |
| May 13 2023 | Multiple aircraft (two Mi-8s, an Su-34, and an Su-35) crashed in Bryansk Oblast while en route to a bombing run in Ukraine, with no survivors among the nine personnel on board. The Russian government attributed one helicopter's crash to an engine fire. |
| May 12 2023 | An Mi-28 helicopter crashed in the Dzhankoi district of Russian-occupied Crimea during a training flight, killing both pilots. The Russian Defence Ministry suspected equipment failure. |
| April 26 2023 | A MIG-31 crashed in Murmansk Oblast after catching fire. The pilots successfully ejected and did not require hospitalization. |
| April 20 2023 | An Su-34 accidentally discharged its ordnance over Belgorod, causing injuries to two civilians, damaging buildings and vehicles, and creating a 20-metre wide crater in the city centre. |
| March 7 2023 | A Mil Mi-8 helicopter in Dmitri Medvedev's motorcade had its tail rotor torn off after hitting a road sign while landing at the Beloyarsk Nuclear Power Station in Sverdlovsk Oblast. |
| February 23 2023 | An Su-25 aircraft crashed in Belgorod Oblast due to a 'technical malfunction', resulting in the death of its pilot. |
| January 1 2023 | A Mil Mi-8 helicopter belonging to the Special Flight Detachment 'Rossiya' crashed at Moscow's Vnukovo International Airport, with tail rotor blades appearing to be sheared off. No casualties were reported. |
| December 22 2022 | The Admiral Kuznetsov caught fire during repair work in Murmansk, with the fire quickly extinguished and no casualties reported. |
| December 2 2022 | A MIG-31 interceptor aircraft crashed in Primorsky Krai during a training flight, with the crew safely ejecting. |
| October 28 2022 | Svetlana Babayeva, bureau chief of Rossiya Segodnya media group in Crimea, was killed by a stray bullet while covering military shooting practice. |
| October 23 2022 | A Sukhoi Su-30 fighter jet crashed into a house in Irkutsk during a test flight, killing two pilots with no ground casualties. |
| October 17 2022 | A Su-34 fighter jet crashed into an apartment building in Yeysk, Krasnodar Krai during a training flight, killing 15 people and injuring 28 residents. The two crew members bailed out safely. |
| October 10 2022 | VVS recommenced large-scale bombardment of Ukrainian cities, particularly targeting energy infrastructure across multiple cities and oblasts. |
| October 8 2022 | Sergey Surovikin became the commander of all Russian forces invading Ukraine. |
| October 1 2022 | A MIG-31BM interceptor aircraft crashed during takeoff from Belbek Air Base in Crimea, with the navigator ejecting successfully but the pilot dying and the aircraft burning out. |
| September 19 2022 | US Air Force General James B. Hecker reported that Russia had lost 55 military aircraft due to being shot down by Ukrainian air defenses since the start of the invasion. |
| June 24 2022 | An Il-76 aircraft crashed after hitting power lines near Ryazan, killing five people and wounding four. |
| June 22 2022 | An explosion at an ammunition depot in Vladimir Oblast killed four people (three soldiers and one civilian specialist) during a loading and unloading operation. |
| April 22 2022 | A fire at a key aerospace defence research institute in Tver resulted in seven deaths, 25 injuries, and 10 people reported missing. |
| April 14 2022 | The cruiser Moskva sank in the Black Sea during hostilities with Ukraine, with Russia officially admitting one sailor died, though independent reports suggested 40 casualties. |
| April 8 2022 | A MIG-31 crashed in Leningrad Oblast, with pilots managing to eject safely. |
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