Putin may have aiming at Santa in his flying sleigh, but he actually hit an Azeri airliner.
And in other, quite similar news....
"...two F/A-18 Super Hornets were flying above the US guided-missile cruiser USS Gettysburg during anti-Houthi missions in the region when the Navy launched a pair of surface-to-air missiles from the ship. While the first US jet was accidentally struck by one of the weapons — with the pilots safely ejecting from the aircraft before it crashed — the second plane took evasive maneuvers to avoid the missile aiming at it."
Second Navy jet nearly brought down by friendly fire in Red Sea NY Post, 24 December 2024