A Russian supersonic fighter plane Sukhoi-34 accidentally fired a gun into the city of Belgorodnearly Ukraineon Thursday night (April 20), causing an explosion and injuring three people.
Video footage from the site showed piles of concrete in the street, several damaged cars and a building with broken windows. One shot showed what appeared to be a car upside down on the roof of a store.
The location of the images was verified by streetview and satellite images.
The governor of the Belgorod region, Vyacheslav Gladkovannounced a state of emergency overnight, saying there was a 65-foot (20-meter) wide crater on one of the main streets.
Three people were injured, he said, adding that four cars and four apartment buildings were damaged.
“Thank God there are no dead,” Vyacheslav Gladkov said in a statement on Telegram, adding that an apartment building had been evacuated overnight.
The Russian state news agency TASS He quoted the Russian Defense Ministry as saying that a supersonic Su-34 fighter-bomber plane had accidentally discharged a munition.
“While a Sukhoi Su-34 air force plane was flying over the city of Belgorod, there was an accidental discharge of aviation ammunition,” he said. TASS citing the Ministry of Defense.
He did not say what type of weapon was involved.
The ministry said some buildings had been damaged and announced that an investigation was already underway, according to TASS.
The Belgorod region is one of several parts of southern Russia where targets such as fuel and ammunition depots have been rocked by explosions since the start of what Moscow calls its “special military operation” in Ukraine on February 24, 2022.
“There was an abnormal drop of ammunition” during the flight of an airplane “over the city of Belgorod,” the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement, released by local agencies, in which it specified that the incident took place. at 22.15 local.
“There was an explosion. According to preliminary information, there are no victims. At the crossroads of the central streets, a huge crater with a diameter of 20 meters was formed, ”he indicated earlier on Telegram. Vyacheslav GladkovGovernor of the Belgorod region.
The mayor of Belgorod, Valentin Demidovarrived at the scene and posted photos of the damage on Telegram.
“There was an abnormal drop of ammunition” during the flight of an airplane “over the city of Belgorod,” the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement, released by local agencies, in which it specified that the incident took place. at 22.15 local.
“There was an explosion. According to preliminary information, there are no victims. At the crossroads of the central streets, a huge crater with a diameter of 20 meters was formed, ”he indicated earlier on Telegram. Vyacheslav GladkovGovernor of the Belgorod region.
The mayor of Belgorod, Valentin Demidovarrived at the scene and posted photos of the damage on Telegram.
(With information from Reuters)
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