2023-04-22 18:27:00
A Russian Sukhoi Su-34 fighter plane accidentally loses a bomb while flying over the city. The investigation is ongoing.
Update from April 21, 2:25 p.m.: After an explosion accidentally triggered by a fighter jet in the Russian city of Belgorod, a Ukrainian military officer has commented on the incident. “Such bombs might have fallen elsewhere,” Yuriy Ihnat, spokesman for the Ukrainian Air Force, told a Ukrainian news program.
The Russians would “rush everything” – corresponding accidents are therefore not a surprise. Belgorod will therefore not remain the only Russian place where bombs will fall. “Such incidents will increase,” said Ihnat.
After explosion in Belgorod: number of injured in Russia increases
Update from April 21, 10:55 am: After the fighter jet incident in Belgorod, Russia, the number of injured has risen to three. No one is in mortal danger, said the governor of the region, Vyacheslav Gladkov, on Telegram.
On Thursday evening (April 20), a heavy explosion occurred in the middle of a Belgorod crossroads, tearing a crater with a radius of around 20 meters in the ground. The Defense Ministry in Moscow later announced that a Russian fighter jet had “shot down unplanned ammunition”.
Heavy explosion in Russia: fighter jet accidentally bombed own city
First report from April 21: Belgorod – A massive explosion shook the Russian city of Belgorod near the Ukrainian border in the middle of the Ukraine war. “A huge crater with a radius of 20 meters has formed at the intersection of one of the main roads,” said the governor of the Belgorod region Vyacheslav Gladkov on Thursday evening (April 20).
| Belgorod |
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The reason was a dramatic oversight. The Defense Ministry in Moscow later admitted that a Russian Sukhoi Su-34 fighter jet dropped a bomb while flying over the city. “An anomalous release of Air Force ammunition has occurred,” it said in a statement. “On April 20, 2023 at around 10:15 p.m. Moscow time, an air force Su-34 aircraft was unplanned shooting down over the city of Belgorod.” Investigations are ongoing.
Since the start of the Ukraine war, Russian military planes have been flying regularly over Belgorod
According to him, the shock wave triggered by the detonation damaged four apartments and four cars and caused nine power poles to fall. Gladkow and Mayor Valentin Demidow published pictures of the damage. Among other things, the interior of devastated apartments might be seen on it. Two women were injured. One of the women was taken to the hospital for a head injury and the other was treated at the scene.
Since the start of the Ukraine war in February 2022, Russian military planes have been flying regularly over Belgorod. From there, Russia repeatedly launches attacks once morest Ukrainian territory. At the same time, the region itself has become increasingly the target of shelling in recent months. In January, Governor Gladkow announced that a total of 25 people had been killed and more than 90 others injured in the region of the same name since February 2022.
In October, a Russian Sukhoi-34 plane crashed into a residential complex in the city of Yeysk on the Azov Sea near Ukraine. 16 people died, including several children. (cs/dpa/afp)
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