Putin humiliated as Russian bomber misses Ukraine target by 37 miles in military fiasco

Vladimir Putin's airforce keeps bombing its own side. (Image: Getty)

A Russian fighter jet dropped a 500kg bomb near a Russian village in the Belgorod district, in another embarrassing "friendly fire" incident. The bomber was supposed to unleash its deadly package at a Ukrainian target just across the border.

However, the FAB-500 munition crashed to earth on the Russian side just over 60 kilometres (37 miles) from the Ukrainian border. It landed two kilometres from the village of Ivica, but miraculously did not explode and injure anyone.

Ukrainian sappers inspect an unexploded Russia FAB-500 bomb (Image: Getty)

Local sources reported that the half-ton bomb was quickly removed and destroyed by military engineers.

Bombs from Putin's airforce have repeatedly fallen on Russian territory and inside Kremlin-controlled parts of Ukraine.

At the beginning of April, eight houses were damaged after a bomb dropped from a Russian jet exploded in the village of Tsibulevka inside the Belgorod region.

The day before that incident, another munition fell right in front of a car of a 36-year-man, who suffered multiple shrapnel wounds.

The Astra media channel has calculated that already this year at least 70 aerial bombs fired by Putin's airforce have fallen on territory inside Russia and the occupied Ukrainian territories.

Last year, Russia's airforce dropped at least 165 FAB bombs on these same territories.

Russia's airforce has adapted their Soviet FAB bombs, in an attempt to keep their fighter jets out of danger.

Munition guidance kits - known as UMPK - have been attached to the bombs to make them more accurate and give them a longer range.

This allows Russian jets to fire at targets in Ukraine from within Russia, therefore keeping them out of range of the enemy's air defence systems.

However, due to faulty technology, aerial bombs do not always reach their targets and fall on Russian territory.

Putin's military is desperately trying to hide such facts from the Kremlin and cover up its incompetence.

The FAB-500 bomb has been used to target Kharkiv, Ukraine's second largest city which is just 30 kilometres (19 miles) from the Russian border.