Russian pilots flying a Tu-22M3 supersonic bomber mistakenly hit a grain ship in the Black Sea having “targeted it in haste,” likely while trying to evade Ukrainian air defenses, U.K. defense officials have said.
The British Ministry of Defence (MoD) said in a social media post that the merchant vessel Aya may have narrowly avoided catastrophic damage because a missile failed to detonate.
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By Billal Rahman — Live News Reporter |
Russian pilots flying a Tu-22M3 supersonic bomber mistakenly hit a grain ship in the Black Sea having “targeted it in haste,” likely while trying to evade Ukrainian air defenses, U.K. defense officials have said.
The British Ministry of Defence (MoD) said in a social media post that the merchant vessel Aya may have narrowly avoided catastrophic damage because a missile failed to detonate.
Read more: [https://www.newsweek.com/russian-tu-22-bomber-struck-wrong-black-sea-target-haste-uk-1963857](https://www.newsweek.com/russian-tu-22-bomber-struck-wrong-black-sea-target-haste-uk-1963857)
Wasn’t this the boat in Romanian waters ,?
It begs the question – what did they think it was?