A new wave of Russian missiles plunged into the Caspian Sea after ‘technical malfunctioning’, it's been reported.
Launched from a Tu-95MS – one of Vladimir Putin’s Soviet nuclear bombers – the three rockets were aimed at Ukraine.
The alleged blunder could have seen them hit Russian residential buildings, said Crimean Wind Telegram channel, citing a Moscow military source.
‘They could have flown a little further and fallen on residential buildings, killing a lot of people.
’If we don’t figure out the reasons for the fall of the missiles, then such a tragedy is a matter of time.’
Russia has been regularly firing cruise missiles at Ukraine from over the Caspian Sea, killing civilians in Kharkiv, Dnipro, Lviv and Odesa.
There has already been much speculation about the malfunction, which caused further embarrassment to Putin’s army.
The source claimed the cause of the failure may be Western sanctions, forcing makers to use inferior components.
Other causes could be ‘negligence in the assembly’ or theft of components to flock on the black market.
This incident comes after two bombs unleashed from a Russian Su-34 mistakenly slammed into Belgorod city, close to the Ukrainian border.
Iurii Ihnat, spokesperson for the Air Force Command of the Ukraine, said recently that Russia is firing its missiles from the Caspian Sea because of their unreliability.
The ‘freelance descent of aviation munitions’ in Belgorod last week was not the first.
An explosion in such a large city was impossible to hide, so Russia had to admit the mistake, he stressed.
‘Why re they allowed to launch from the Caspian Sea?’ Mr Ihnat added. ‘Because a rocket fired from a war plane does not always start and fly to its target.
‘It just falls. It’s easier when it falls into the Caspian Sea than somewhere in Russia, on the head of Russians.’
Falling in the sea means Russia can hide the blunder.
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