Russian Fighter Jet Accidentally Drops Bomb on Russian Border City

Russian Fighter Jet Accidentally Drops Bomb on Russian Border City
Russian fighter jets in Swedish airspace east of the Swedish Baltic Sea island of Gotland, on March 2, 2022. Swedish Air Force/TT News Agency/AFP via Getty Images
Katabella Roberts
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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.
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