Russian fighter jets and military helicopters they crashed today in Russia, near the border with Ukraine, Russian rescue services announced, according to the Russian state news agency TASS, without clarifying the cause of the crash.

The Russian newspaper Kommersant, as well as other sources, reported that two Russian fighter jets and two military helicopters were shot down today near the Ukrainian border.

“From the crash of the Mi-8 helicopter, two people were killed,” Russian rescuers said, according to TASS. “The helicopter crashed in the city of Klinchi, according to preliminary data … the helicopter’s engine caught fire before the crash,” another source told the Russian news agency.

The accident occurred in the city of Klinchy, in the Bryansk region, 65 km from the Ukrainian border.

TASS also reported that a Russian Su-34 fighter jet crashed in the area, without clarifying the causes of the crash. He made no mention of the Su-35 or a second helicopter.

According to the governor of the region, Alexander Bogomaz, a woman he was taken to hospital, having been injured and “five houses were damaged”. The governor did not provide further details.

According to an official of the Russian occupation authorities in Ukraine, Vladimir Rogov, a total of “two Russian Mi-8s, one Su-35 and one Su-34” were “shot down” and “the pilots of the helicopters and the Su-34 were killed ».

The Russian Ministry of Defense has so far made no mention of these incidents.

Video on social media shows a helicopter catching fire in the air, having apparently been hit by a missile. The authenticity of these videos have not been confirmed by Reuters and Agence France-Presse.

Kommersant reported on its website that an Su-34, an Su-35 and two Mi-8 helicopters were “downed almost simultaneously” in an ambush in Bryansk.

“According to preliminary data… the fighter jets they were going to launch a missile attack and bombs on targets in Ukraine’s Chernihiv province and the helicopters were there to support them,” the report notes.

The Russian paper did not provide details of the downing of the four Russian fighter jets and helicopters, but military bloggers who closely follow the war in Ukraine made the same claim. Kommersant said the crews of all four helicopters were killed.

From the side of Kiev, Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Irena Verechuk expressed her satisfaction that “Russians are very unhappy today.” “We can figure them out: two fighter jets and two less helicopters,” he said.

“Justice (…) and karma,” the adviser to the Ukrainian presidency, Mykhailo Podoliak, said on Twitter, arguing that these four Russian military helicopters and aircraft were going to hit “civilian population in Chernihiv province.” , in northern Ukraine.

The area Bryansk, which borders Ukraine, was targeted by Ukrainian bombing in late April, killing four people. This area has recently been the target of drone attacks and rail sabotage.