Il-22 crash near Voronezh
Russian Aerospace Forces (610th Combat Training and Aircrew Conversion Centre) Ilyushin Il-20M · Shot down by air defence weapons
From Voronezh (Russia) to an unrecorded destination
Event
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- Event fatalities
- 8 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- Survivors
- Unknown
- InjuriesFatal: death within 30 days. Serious: over 48 hours in hospital within a week, most broken bones, severe bleeding, nerve or organ damage, or serious burns. Minor: anything less. Glossary
- Unknown
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- Military
Ilyushin Il-20M
- Aircraft type
- Ilyushin IL-20
- Category
- Airplane · from aircraft type
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- RA-75917
- Onboard fatalities
- 8
- Route
- From Voronezh (Russia)To not recorded
Approximate · Estimated position: Kantemirovka, the place the Wikipedia article names. Not the accident site.
From the Wikipedia article
The Il-22 crash near Voronezh was an aviation accident involving an Il-22M aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces that occurred on 24 June 2023 in Voronezh Oblast, killing all 10 crew members. The aircraft was shot down by fighters of the Wagner PMC during a military mutiny.
Crash
On 24 June 2023 an Il-22M airborne command post of the Russian Aerospace Forces was shot down during a military mutiny by fighters of the Wagner PMC. According to the outlet Baza, the missile at the aircraft was launched from the Voronezh – Luhansk bypass highway, and the downed aircraft itself fell in the area of the urban-type settlement of Kantemirovka, Voronezh Oblast. The Il-22M was shot down by a Pantsir-S1 system.
According to Irina Kuksenkova, a journalist of Russia's Channel One, when the head of the Wagner PMC, Yevgeny Prigozhin, was asked why his fighters had shot down this aircraft, since it had not been striking the Wagner men, Prigozhin replied: “some fool of an air-defence guy in the column was shooting down everything that took off”.
According to “VChK-OGPU” and war correspondent Irina Kuksenkova, 10 people on board were killed, whereas the Telegram channel Fighterbomber claimed that 8 people died. According to the authorities of Ivanovo Oblast, where most of the dead airmen lived, eight were killed.
Besides the Il-22M, during the mutiny Wagner PMC fighters shot down several more Russian military helicopters, while the Wagner men themselves were subjected to air strikes.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Russian Wikipedia article “Катастрофа Ил-22 под Воронежем” (revision 155043721, retrieved 2026-09-19) by its authors, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Extracted as plain text: references, tables, images and some sections are left out; the translation may contain errors, and long articles were cut to their first 700 words. Read the article
Sources
Russian Wikipedia article: Катастрофа Ил-22 под Воронежем
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 155043721 · 2026-09-13 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q120281435
- Licence
- Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
Where each value comes from
- Record
- ru Wikipedia article "Катастрофа Ил-22 под Воронежем" (page 10264789, revision 155043721), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- place the Wikipedia infobox site links (Wikidata coordinates)
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports)
- Operation
- operator named as an armed force or military unit in the infobox
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia infobox: summary
Source notes (2)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the Russian Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.
- The Russian article contradicts itself on the fatalities: its text says all 10 crew members were killed; its infobox (used here) gives 8 crew and 8 fatalities.