A Russian fighter plane has crashed into a residential building in the southern Russian city of Yeysk.

Online footage showed a large fireball erupting from the nine-storey block with reports 45 flats were damaged.

The pilots had ejected and officials were trying to establish information about casualties on the ground, Russian media reported.

Yeysk is located on the coast of the Sea of Azov and near Russia's border with southern Ukraine.

RIA news agency said the plane was a Sukhoi Su-34, a supersonic medium-range fighter-bomber that crashed during a training flight from a military airfield.

TASS said the crash was caused by an engine fire.

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