A Russian fighter jet accidentally bombed the city of Belgorod near the border with Ukraine on April 20, according to officials, damaging an unspecified number of buildings and injuring at least three people.
“At around 22:15 Moscow time on April 20, when a Su-34 plane of the Russian Aerospace Forces was performing a flight above the city of Belgorod, an emergency release of an air ordnance occurred,” Russia’s Defense ministry said in a statement, according to a translation by state-owned news agency TASS.
It did not identify the weapon that was released. The Su-34 is a supersonic fighter bomber that can carry a range of missiles, including air-to-air missiles, air-to-surface missiles, guided and unguided bombs, and rockets….