20:41, 3 December 2025

The court found the Russian Defense Ministry responsible for the plane crash in Yeysk.

In Krasnodar, the regional court has reversed its decision in the case of a family from Yeysk who suffered damage when a Su-34 bomber crashed on their home in October 2022.

As reported by Kavkazsky Uzel, in September 2025, the Yeysk District Court of Krasnodar Krai partially upheld the claim of a local resident and her minor daughter who suffered damage when a military aircraft crashed on their home in October 2022. The court halved the compensation amounts and ordered both victims to pay 500,000 rubles each, finding the original claim of two million rubles "clearly inflated."

On October 17, 2022, a Su-34 aircraft crashed into a nine-story residential building in Yeysk. Sixteen people were killed and 43 were injured. On October 22, 2022, authorities reported that they had begun paying compensation to Yeysk residents whose apartments were destroyed in the military plane crash. In August 2024, the court denied three affected families an increase in compensation for moral damages from the military plane crash into a residential building. The authorities previously promised to pay the families of the victims one million rubles each, and the victims between 10,000 and 400,000 rubles. The restoration of the apartment building will be completed by November 1, 2023, and the apartments will be handed over to residents with a rough finish. Residents will also receive compensation for repairs, the Kuban administration announced in February 2023.

Among those killed on October 17, 2022, was an elderly woman, whose relatives filed a lawsuit seeking compensation for damages and moral harm. The victims requested that the Federal State Institution "Joint Strategic Command of the Eastern Military District," the owner of the military aircraft, and the Russian Ministry of Defense be included as defendants, Kommersant reported today.

The trial court in May 2024 partially granted the family's claims but did not include the Russian Ministry of Defense as a defendant and awarded compensation only to the Federal State Institution "Joint Strategic Command of the Eastern Military District." The appellate and cassation courts later reversed this decision twice, reducing the award.

The latest ruling by the Krasnodar Regional Court established subsidiary liability for the military department in the recovery of compensation in favor of the Yeysk family. The regional court pointed out that the Russian Ministry of Defense, as the primary administrator of budget funds, should be held accountable for the financial obligations of its subordinate structures, the publication clarified.

"Caucasian Knot" also reported that a court in Kuban rejected the complaints of three families from Yeysk who requested increased compensation for moral damages from the crash of a military plane on a residential building.

Translated automatically via Google translate from https://www.kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/417763