Posted on 04/21/2023 3:22:32 AM PDT by Cronos
A Russian Sukhoi-34 fighter-jet has accidentally bombed the Russian city of Belgorod, around 40km (25 miles) from the border with Ukraine.
The bomb left a 20m (60ft) crater and caused an explosion so large it blew a car on to the roof of a nearby shop.
Regional governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said authorities had ordered the evacuation of a damaged nine-storey block of flats as a precaution.
Three people were injured and several buildings were damaged, he said.
Video posted on social media showed the impact of the blast, lifting a vehicle on to the roof of a supermarket as traffic streamed along Prospekt Vatutina, close to the centre of the city.
In a brief statement, the Russian defence ministry admitted that one of its Su-34 fighter bombers had "accidentally discharged aircraft ordnance" at 22:15 local time (19:15 GMT) on Thursday.
It was a bureaucratic way of saying that the jet had mistakenly fired a weapon. It didn't specify which one.
The bomb landed at an intersection of two roads not far from the city centre and next to residential buildings. ... CCTV footage of the incident suggests that local residents did, indeed, have a lucky escape.
The video shows a series of cars passing a crossroads, before an object lands on the ground nearby.
There is no immediate explosion. The ordnance detonates approximately 18 seconds later, blowing up a section of the road, catching one of the cars as it passes and sending a parked car flying into the air before it lands on the supermarket roof.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
From the aol article link below, it left a 65 foot wide crater and may have been a 500 kilo bomb. The question is what was the planned target? Also are Russian pilots planning some of their “accidents?”
https://www.aol.com/russias-air-force-accidentally-bombs-130943492.html
Have no idea and not privy to Russian war plans.
Does not matter what the target was - likely some apartment building as usual.
The 2 weeks actually did “break the curve” in the sense of lowering the peak number of cases.
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