A Russian Warplane on a Training Mission Crashes Into the Sea of Azov, Its Pilot Is Killed

Russian SU 25 SM ground attack aircraft (ground) and MIG 29 jet fighters (taking off) attend a training session at Primorkso-Akhtarsk in Krasnodar region, Russia, on March 26, 2015, ahead of the Russian commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the capitulation of Nazi Germany in 1945. Sergey Venyavsky/AFP via Getty Images

MOSCOW—A Russian warplane crashed into the sea on Monday during a training mission in southern Russia and its pilot died after bailing out, authorities said.

The regional administration of the Krasnodar region said that the Su-25 ground attack jet crashed into the Sea of Azov. It said that pilot ejected and was evacuated by emergency teams, but Roman Bublik, the mayor of town of Yeysk, later said that he died.