05:48, 12 September 2025

Court orders military to pay compensation to two Yeisk residents for Su-34 crash

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The Yeisk District Court of the Krasnodar Territory partially satisfied the claim of a local resident and her minor daughter, who were injured when a military plane crashed on their house in October 2022.

As "Kavkazsky Uzel" wrote, on October 17, 2022, a Su-34 plane crashed, crashing into a nine-story residential building in Yeisk. 16 people died, 43 people were injured. On October 22, 2022, the authorities reported that they had begun paying compensation to Yeisk residents whose apartments were destroyed in the crash of the military plane. In August 2024, the court denied three affected families an increase in compensation for moral damages from the crash of a military plane on a residential building.

Earlier, the authorities promised to pay the families of the victims a million rubles each, and the victims - from 10 thousand to 400 thousand rubles. The restoration of the apartment building will be completed by November 1, 2023, the apartments will be handed over to residents in pre-finishing, and people will also be paid compensation for repairs, the Kuban administration announced in February 2023.

In a lawsuit against a military unit of the Eastern Military District and the Russian Ministry of Defense, a resident of Yeysk demanded payment of two million rubles - one million each for herself and her minor daughter. The woman, who was pregnant at the time of the crash, was hospitalized with carbon monoxide poisoning, her daughter was poisoned by combustion products and suffered leg injuries.

A representative of the Ministry of Defense demanded that the lawsuit be dismissed in court, stating that the victims should have received compensation for damages from local authorities, who introduced a municipal emergency regime after the plane crash. However, the court recognized the civil liability of the military unit for the plane crash and the damage caused by this disaster.

The defendants, trying to avoid payments, also referred to the findings of the investigation that the plane crash was the result of birds getting into the engines. The criminal case on the crash was dismissed due to the absence of a criminal event, Kommersant reported on September 11.

According to the publication, the lawsuit was considered on September 4. The court halved the compensation amounts and ordered that both victims be paid 500,000 rubles, finding the initial amount of the claim to be "clearly inflated."

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Translated automatically via Google translate from https://www.kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/415342