“The Commission of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, operating at the crash site of the Su-25UB aircraft in the Stavropol Territory, established the death of two pilots. The pilots did not have time to catapult, ”the agency said in a statement.

On September 3, the Ministry of Defense reported that the Su-25UB fell in an uninhabited area in the Stavropol Territory. Later, emergency services in the region said they had discovered the bodies of dead pilots.