A Russian Sukhoi Su-34 fighter jet accidentally dropped a bomb while flying over the city. The investigation is ongoing.
Updated April 21, 7:29 am: Russian Belgorod is not resting after the fighter jet incident. More than 3,000 people were evacuated in the city on Saturday (April 22) after an unexploded bomb was found in the same area where a massive blast injured two residents on Friday (April 11).
This is a British report BBC And local governor Vyacheslav Gladkov relied on information. He wrote in a telegram that 17 residential buildings “within a radius of 200 meters” were to be sealed.
Fighter plane crash in Belgorod: Ukrainian military report
Updated from April 21, 2:25 pm: A Ukrainian military official has commented on the incident after a fighter jet accidentally exploded in the Russian city of Belgorod. “Such bombs could have fallen somewhere else,” Ukrainian Air Force spokesman Yuriy Ihnat told a Ukrainian news program.
Russians will “rush everything” – and the accidents associated with it are not surprising. So Belkorod will not be the only Russian place where bombs fall. Ihnad said such incidents will increase.
After the explosion in Belgorod: the number of injured in Russia rises
Updated from April 21, 10:55 am: Injured toll rises to 3 after fighter jet crashes in Russia’s Belgorod No one was in danger of death, the region’s governor, Vyacheslav Kladkov, said in a telegram.
On Thursday evening (April 20), a large explosion occurred at the Belgorod crossroads, tearing a crater in the ground with a circumference of about 20 meters. The Defense Ministry in Moscow later announced that the Russian warplane had “shot down unplanned munitions”.
Massive explosion in Russia: Fighter plane accidentally drops bomb in hometown
Report from April 21: In the middle of the Belkorod-Ukraine war, a massive explosion occurred in the Russian city of Belkorod, near the Ukrainian border. “A large ditch with a circumference of 20 meters has formed at the intersection of one of the main roads,” Belgorod Region Governor Vyacheslav Kladkov said on Thursday evening (April 20).
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The reason is a dramatic oversight. The Defense Ministry in Moscow later admitted that a Russian Sukhoi Su-34 fighter jet had dropped the bomb while flying over the city. “There has been an unusual release of ammunition by the Air Force,” it said in a statement. “On April 20, 2023 at 10:15 p.m. Moscow time, an Air Force Su-34 aircraft was unplanned and shot down over the city of Belgorod.” Investigations are ongoing.
Since the start of the war in Ukraine, Russian military aircraft have continued to fly over Belgorod
According to him, the shock wave triggered by the blast damaged four flats and four cars and downed nine power poles. Gladkow and Mayor Valentin Demidow released pictures of the damage. Among other things, the interiors of dilapidated apartments were found in it. Two women were injured. One of the women was taken to hospital with serious head injuries, while the other was treated at the scene.
Since the start of the war in Ukraine in February 2022, Russian military aircraft have continued to fly over Belgorod. From there, Russia has repeatedly launched attacks against Ukrainian territory. At the same time, the area itself has been the target of shelling in recent months. Governor Klatko announced in January that since February 2022, a total of 25 people have been killed and more than 90 injured under the same name.
In October, a Russian Sukhoi-34 crashed into a residential complex in the town of Yesk on the Sea of Azov near Ukraine. 16 people died, including many children. (cs/dpa/afp)
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