That is according to The Guardian, citing russian Tass news agency.
Late on Thursday, April 20, local authorities reported a large blast in the city, which lies just across the border from Ukraine. The regional governor said two women had been injured.
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"About the accident in Belgorod: apparently, the aerial bomb (KAB), which was planned to be launched in Kharkov, did not want to leave the territory of the Russian Federation and landed in Belgorod," Инсайдер UA telegram channel supposes.
“As a Sukhoi Su-34 air force plane was flying over the city of Belgorod there was an accidental discharge of aviation ammunition,” russia’s ministry of attack (as Ukrainians call the MoD of the country that attack Ukraine since the year 2014 as well as wages unprovoked full-scale war since Fabruary 24, 2022) stated explaining why russia’s fighter-bomber bombarded russian city not saying what kind of weapon was involved.
Belgorod’s regional governor, Vyacheslav Gladkov, announcing a state of emergency, said on Telegram there was a crater measuring 20 metres (65ft) across on one of the main streets. Four cars and four apartment buildings were damaged, he added.
Video footage from the site showed piles of concrete on 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 Belgorod region is one of several parts of southern Russia where targets such as fuel and ammunition stores have been rocked by explosions since the start of what Moscow calls its “special military operation” in Ukraine in February 2022.
“Beat your own so that strangers are afraid of you.” This is a common russian expression, which literally means, “beat your friends, so your enemies will be scared of you.”
In russian culture, the phrase is often used to condemn someone’s behavior. It’s an ironic expression, often used to describe people who attack others from their own team in order to intimidate everybody else.
The Su-34 is is a Soviet-origin russian twin-engine, twin-seat, all-weather supersonic medium-range fighter-bomber/strike aircraft. The aircraft is widely used by Russia in the war with Ukraine. According to Oryx (a Dutch open-source intelligence defense analysis website) conservative estimates, since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the russian occupation forces lost at least 19 Su-34 as well as 1 Su-34M aircraft.
A lack of guided bombs required the Su-34s to fly low for accurate bombing, where they were subjected to heavy Ukrainian air-defenses.
The first Su-34 shot down during combat occurred a few days after the beginning of the war on 28 February 2022, near Buzova airfield. Other Su-34 aircraft crashes occurred early March, 5 March, and another the same day, 6 March, 14 March, 25 April, 26 April, 18 July, 11 September, 24 September and 17 October. Russia confirmed the loss of more than 10 Su-34s. It was reported on 3 March 2023 that a Su-34 was shot down over Yenakijeve, Donetsk Oblast.
As Defense Express reported, in middle October, 2022, Su-34 Aircraft Crashed into a High-rise Building in russian Yeysk. We also wrote that in September, 2022 in Kharkiv region Advancing Ukrainian Forces Continued Finding Wrecked russian Aircraft, the Modern Su-34 Abandoned.
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