​A Russian Tu-22M3 strategic bomber plane crashed on Monday ⁠during a training flight in Siberia's Irkutsk region, the ⁠Russian ​Defence Ministry ⁠said, the Interfax news agency ⁠reported.The ministry was ​cited ⁠as saying ‌that the crew had managed to eject ‌and had survived ‌the incident.Unverified footage of the ⁠crash shown on social media showed a plane nose-diving into a thickly wooded area not far ‌from the banks ​of the ‌Angara river, ⁠producing a huge ⁠column of smoke.