“We share the grief of our Russian and Turkish colleagues who lost eight of their comrades while fighting wildfires in Turkey,” the French rescuers said on Twitter.
# FeuxDeForêt # Turquie Nous partageons la peine des services de sécurité civile Russes🇷🇺 et Turcs🇹🇷 qui ont perdu 8 des leurs alors qu'ils faisaient face aux feux de forêt en Turquie.
Pensées et soutien de la part de la @SecCivileFrance.
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- Sécurité Civile (@SecCivileFrance) August 14, 2021
On August 14, an amphibious aircraft Be-200 of the Russian Ministry of Defense crashed while landing in the vicinity of the village of Adana in Turkey.
There were eight people on board: five Russian servicemen and three representatives of Turkey.
They all died.
A commission from the Russian Ministry of Defense has been sent to the scene of the accident.
Russian President Vladimir Putin instructed to present the Russian military for state awards posthumously.