“Inadequate training”: Russia probably accidentally bombs its own cities. “The increasing frequency of these cases likely demonstrates a degree of fatigue among air and ground forces,” Britain's Defense Intelligence Agency said on X, formerly Twitter.

In the past there have been repeated reports of missteps in Russian warfare, such as the shelling of its own paratroopers in a captured Ukrainian city. The first of which would have taken place on April 20, 2023, would have been in Belgorod.