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Russian Warship Attacks Russian Village

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May 29, 2009

Here's one from the "oops" department.

A Russian antisubmarine warship participating in military exercises in the Gulf of Finland accidentally fired a salvo of missiles into the village of Pesochnoye, near St. Petersburg.

Russian news agencies cited a Russian Navy spokesman as saying that a total of 10 missiles were accidentally fired at the village. Remarkably nobody was injured and the only damage was a broken car window.

You can read all about it in Russian here, and in English here.

-- Brian Whitmore

Tags: navy , Russia

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by: Ransom from: Utah
May 31, 2009 16:54
Stop me if I'm reading this wrong, but the Russian source seemed to me to imply bullets, though the English version said missiles.
by: Ivo
June 06, 2009 12:39
Ransom,

"По его словам, специальная комиссия ищет осколки снарядов на территории садоводческого хозяйства."

That doesn't imply bullets.

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