Putin humiliated as Kremlin airforce ‘carpet bombs’ Russian territory | World | News
Russian residents living close to the Ukraine border have accused their own airforce of intensively bombing them, in the latest fiasco involving Vladimir Putin‘s army. Belgorod region has been subjected to continual aerial bombardment by Ukrainian drones and missiles since the launch of the full-scale war in February 2022.
The Ukrainian have targeted oil refineries and military-industrial sites, as they seek to sow panic and chaos in the Kremlin’s army. Local residents – unlike their counterparts in Moscow and St Petersburg – have felt the full terror of war. They have been subjected to many deprivations and emergency situations, as the region has come under repeated attack.
Residential buildings have suffered collateral damage and several people have been killed and injured. However, not all the damage has been inflicted by Ukraine, with Russia‘s airforce seemingly happy to add their own contribution to the overall destruction.
Ukraine’s intelligence services intercepted a phone call from a local woman, complaining about the terror residents regularly face from their own fighter jets.
The woman said that Putin’s planes had dropped at least eight mega-bombs on the region within the last 11 days.
“In 11 days, Russian bombers dropped eight bombs, eight bombs on the territory of Belgorod region. Can you imagine?” she said.
Russian jets often fire their missiles and glide bombs while flying above their one territory, in order to evade Ukrainian air defence systems.
Due to technical malfunctions, many bombs do not follow their set course and fall on Russian territory.
A document obtained by the Washington Post (WP) suggested Russia dropped glide bombs on its own territory nearly 40 times in one year.
Believed to have been compiled by Belgorod city emergency department, the document records 38 incidents in the year from April 2023 to April 2024.
The Astra Telegram channel has calculated that Putin’s airforce dropped at least 127 bombs on Russian territory and on the occupied areas of Ukraine, since the beginning of 2025. Last year the channel put the figure at an astonishing 165 bombs,
