Russian Military Helicopter Crash Kills Crew Members

A Mi-28 military helicopter has crashed in an uninhabited area of Southwestern Russia, killing the crew, two Russian news agencies said Thursday.

“An Mi-28 crashed in the Kaluga region… the crew died,” the TASS news agency said, quoting a source in the defense ministry.

“According to preliminary information, a technical malfunction caused the disaster,” the Interfax news agency said, citing a defense ministry statement.

A local official told TASS that the military aircraft crashed in a forest about 150 kilometers (93 miles) from the Ukrainian border.