Leaked Russian War Memo Details How 38 Powerful Glide-Bombs Have Fallen on Putin’s Own Territory
A new document intercepted and leaked to the press by Ukraine details how 38 Russian-launched glide bombs landed on Vladimir Putin’s territory.
Knewz.com has learned that said document shared with the Washington Post, was related to other official Russian papers on bomb cleanups and evacuations.
The Soviet-era munitions converted into glide bombs by the Russian military. By: Rosoboronexport.
The most affected area was the far-western Russian region of Belgorod. These projectiles are reported to have fallen in the area between April 2023 and April 2024, but most did not detonate.
Said projectiles, named FAB 500s were built during the Soviet era and modified with GPS in the form of aftermarket wings before being used in the Ukraine war.
According to experts cited by the Washington Post, it is due to the failure of these guidance systems that the glide bombs land on Russian territory rather than in Ukraine.
The publication further noted that they were discovered by various members of society in the Russian border region including forest rangers, farmers, and villagers.
The Belgorod region has suffered a growing list of casualties due to its proximity to the battlefront. By: Telegram/Vyacheslav Gladkov
Four of these bombs are reported to have fallen on the 400,000-citizen city of Belgorod while seven landed in adjoining suburbs.
The leaked communication further stated that the Russian Defense Ministry did not know when the bombs had fallen.
A report by media outlet Astra, however, suggests that the number stipulated by the leaked report is a fraction of the total amount of bombs Russia has dropped on its own territory.
In a Telegram update posted on July 1, it noted that “nine FABs and one R-77 missile were dropped by the Russian Aerospace Forces on the Belgorod Region over the past four days. Five houses [have been] damaged.”
Astra’s update further claimed that four projectiles were found and no one was injured. A day later another Russian projectile was found three miles outside a village—this projectile had exploded.
Infrastructure in Belgorod has also taken a knock from the Ukrainian fire, and according to reports, Russian glide bombs. By: Telegram/Vyacheslav Gladkov
The bombs landed in villages and fields, and although no one was injured, Astra claims that there were a total of 119 lethal projectiles dropped by Russia on the Belgorod region between March and June 2024 alone.
This news comes in the wake of Russia’s protests and threats against the West for allowing the use of NATO-donated weapons by Ukraine on Russia.
The ever-exacerbating tension between the two world entities reached a landmark when Putin sent a missile cruiser and a nuclear submarine to the Caribbean. This development followed shortly after President Joe Biden gave Ukraine the go-ahead to use weapons donated by the United States on Russian turf.
The leak follows Russia expressing its ire over the use of U.S. munitions on Russian soil. By: Realna Viina/Kyiv Post
More recently, U.S. Secretary of State Lloyd Austin, reached out to his Russian counterpart, Andrei Belousov, following an attack on Russian-controlled Crimea that killed four and injured at least 150 people, per Defense News.
According to a White House communique, Lloyd “emphasized the importance of maintaining lines of communication amid Russia's ongoing war against Ukraine,” during the conversation.
The Kremlin, in turn, claimed in a Telegram statement of its own that: “A.R. Belousov pointed to the danger of further escalating the situation through continued supplies of American weapons to the Ukrainian armed forces.”