INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
The victims of a deadly Russian fighter jet crash in October 2022 are seeking damages from the Russian military, the Kommersant
newspaperreported Friday, citing anonymous sources.Sixteen people were killed and 43 others were injured when a Su-34 fighter jetcrashed
The cause of the disaster was believed to be a technical malfunction and investigators have since closed a probe into safety violations.At
least six families had initially sought to sue the Russian Defense Ministry for compensation of up to 12 million rubles ($131,000) per
person in moral dmages, according to Kommersant.But a court in Yeysk ruled to lower the moral damages to between 20,000 rubles and 100,000
district appealed the rulings, arguing that it was wrongly identified as a defendant and was not liable to pay compensation
