Rescue teams discovered that there were no survivors from the wreckage of a Russian helicopter that went down in the remote Kamchatka peninsula, which had 22 people aboard, according to state news agency TASS on Sunday.

The helicopter, identified as a Mi-8T, had just departed from a location near the Vachkazhets volcano. This region, located approximately 4,400 miles east of Moscow, was affected by a cyclone over the weekend, bringing severe winds and rain; however, it remains uncertain if this was a contributing factor to the crash.

(Reporting by Lidia Kelly in Melbourne and Lucy Papachristou in London; Editing by Mark Trevelyan)