Several shocking videos from various fighting zones have repeatedly appeared amid the continuing Russia-Ukraine conflict. Some of them are horrifying, brutal, and heartbreaking. However, a video of a single malfunctioning Russian surface-to-air missile executing a spectacular U-turn and crashing into the firing troops has gone viral.

The spectacular failure reportedly happened early on Friday morning close to the town of Alchevsk, which is located approximately 55 miles south of Severodonetsk, the scene of the worst battle.

The video depicts a Russian missile from a volley that was fired in the Luhansk region rotating 180 degrees in midair and crashing into a target that is remarkably close to its point of launch.

The air defense missile system, which may have been an S300, may have been operated by pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine from the secessionist Luhansk People’s Republic, according to reports. Although unlikely, some have theorized that the problem might have been brought on by a lingering Ukrainian drone that jammed or compromised the system.

According to local media sources, a fire broke out at the scene not far from homes. There were no reports of injuries sustained by Russian or separatist forces during the incident.

A residential neighborhood in northeastern Riyadh was hit in 2018 by a US-made Patriot air defense missile that was malfunctioning and being deployed to intercept ballistic missiles launched by Yemen’s Houthi party.

Throughout the three-month fight, Ukraine used loitering drones to strike targets, most notably the Turkish Bayraktar TB2 drone, which Russia’s much-lauded anti-aircraft missile systems had trouble neutralizing.

Although it costs the city of Severodonetsk to be essentially destroyed, Russia has been employing its concentrated artillery barrages to force Ukrainian positions there back over time.

Ukraine has requested long-range, high-precision artillery missile weaponry from the West due to Russia routinely bombing their munitions production and storage facilities and their artillery running out of ammunition.

The majority of the military equipment and other supplies have come from the United States. It recently announced that it would provide new weaponry valued at another 450 million dollars, including four HIMARS rocket launchers.

In the scorching battlefields close to Severodonetsk and Lysychansk in the east, the systems provide a capability that Ukraine desperately lacks. They have the ability to simultaneously launch a large number of precision missiles with a 50-mile range.

Source: dailymail.co.uk