A Russian warplane bombed one of Russia's own border cities, adding to the country's stack of embarrassing wartime blunders
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Matthew Loh
Apr 21, 2023, 10:18 IST
The Sukhoi Su-34 jet fighter-bomber of Russian Air Force.aviation-images.com/Universal Images Group via Getty Images
A Russian Su-34 mistakenly bombed the Russian city of Belgorod on Thursday, authorities said.
The blast injured two women and heavily damaged four apartments, per the local governor.
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A Russian jet accidentally bombed the Russian border city of Belgorod on Thursday evening, said Moscow's defense ministry.
Surveillance footage of the explosion was uploaded to Telegram by the Russian news outlet RBC. It shows a bright flash before a section of the street erupts in flames, and debris is thrown into the air.
"During the flight of the Su-34 aircraft of the Aerospace Forces over the city of Belgorod, an abnormal descent of aviation ammunition occurred," the ministry told the state media outlet TASS.
One woman was sent to hospital with a head injury, while the other suffered abrasions and was treated at the scene, Gladkov wrote.
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Photos posted by Gladkov showed extensive damage to the nearby apartments — the outer wall of one property was completely blasted apart. Another photo showed what appears to be an entrance blown open.
Four cars were also wrecked by the explosion, according to Gladkov.
"An investigation team and employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations are working on the spot," Gladkov wrote.
He described a need to "restore traffic on one of the main arteries of the city," indicating that the explosion occurred in a typically busy area of Belgorod.
Belgorod is some 25 miles from the Ukrainian border, and Russian warplanes often fly over the city on combat missions. It is located around 50 miles from Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city.
The Russian Ministry of Defense did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment sent outside regular business hours.
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