A Ukrainian fighter pilot lost his life during a training flight, the army said on Saturday in what was the second such death in two months.

The Sukhoi-27 plane crashed on Saturday while coming in to land in the northern Jytomyr region at around 1300 GMT, the army’s central command said.

In similar case, on October 16, a Ukrainian and a US pilot died when their Su-27 crashed during the Clear Sky 2018 military exercises involving eight NATO countries.

The drills were held as Ukrainian government forces and Russian-backed separatists in the east of the country face off in a conflict that has already claimed more than 10,000 lives.