Several videos circulating on social media appear to show the exact moment a Russian missile launch went spectacularly wrong.
Ukrainian military officials said Wednesday night, The Russian military launched six S-300 air defense missiles in the direction of Kharkiv in northeastern Ukraine, however, one of the missiles veered off course and hit a district in the Russian city of Belgorod, near the Ukrainian border.
Several Belgorod residents caught the moment on camera, Ukrainian military officials said.
Open source intelligence account OSINTtechnical shared some clips purportedly showing the failed launch on Twitter, suggesting that “something went seriously wrong with the guidance system”.
In a clip of 19 seconds, the missile can be seen advancing at one point, before veering off course and finally falling to the ground, creating an explosion.
Still the place where the rocket hit is unknown, but local Telegram channels suggested that it fell in the area of the town of Komsomolske, southwest of Belgorod.
Earlier, Vyacheslav Gladkov, governor of the region of Belgorod, said on his Telegram channel that several explosions were reported in the city and that the region’s air defense system was active.
The governor pointed out that, according to preliminary data, there were no damages or victims.
This is not the first time that Russian military equipment seems to have failed; a video circulating on social media in June appeared to show the moment a Russian air defense system failed and the missile appeared to return to the point from which it was fired.
Here are the images of that failed attempt:
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