The blow is stealthily

Near the Luzhsky training ground near St. Petersburg during the exercises "West-2017" the Ka-52 helicopter accidentally fired at the audience with rockets, 66.ru reports . Two journalists were seriously injured. The incident was not officially reported.

According to the informed source of the publication, there was an involuntary launch of the Air-Earth class missiles from one of the Ka-52 helicopters. "They flew on targets, 500 meters remained, on the assassin on the combat path, the weapons chains were turned on, they turned on, but something corrupted there, and the missiles went away themselves. At least two cars were burned at the fragments, two people got severe injuries, now they are in the hospital. It was a training sort of show. source.

On Monday, the Luzhsky training ground was visited by President Vladimir Putin and Minister of Defense Sergey Shoigu.

When exactly the incident occurred, it is unknown. The video recording of the incident was published on YouTube on Monday. However, after reports about the tragedy at the training ground appeared in the media, the video was "deleted by the user." Nevertheless, soon on the 66.ru channel, a somewhat abbreviated version of the video was published again.

In the Ministry of Defense, random shelling at the Luzhsky training ground is denied. "On September 18, as part of the drawing of the episode of the practical actions of the joint strategic doctrine" West -2017 "there were no incidents related to the work of army aviation," the Western Military District press service said on Tuesday. “All messages about volleys in the crowd of journalists, a large number of seriously wounded - deliberate provocation or someone's personal stupidity.”

A different case is recorded on the video, the military claims. Then the crews of helicopters in the framework of the flight tactical teaching worked out the exercise to defeat ground targets. "The system of guidance of one of the helicopters was committed erroneous to capture the target. As a result of an uncontrolled rocket, one of the trucks without people was damaged," the district said. However, when and where such an incident occurred, the message is not said.

On September 17, the press service of the Western Military District reported that "the crews of the Mi-28N and Ka-52 Army Aviation of the Western Military District worked out the tasks of air intelligence, the application of a missile strike on ground targets and the cover of a terrestrial grouping of troops from the air worked out air intelligence tasks, infliction of missile impact on terrestrial targets and terrestrial targets, and terrestrial targets and Covering a ground group of troops from the air. "

The exercises "West-2017" began on September 14. These are the largest maneuvers in Russia near the borders of NATO members over the past four years. According to the Ministry of Defense, more than 12.7 thousand military are involved in them: about 7.2 thousand Russian and about 5.5 thousand Belarusian. Meanwhile, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linus Linkyavichyus called this data implausible, explaining that, according to him, at least 30 thousand Russian military were transferred to Belarus, as well as 4 thousand systems that could carry nuclear weapons. Meanwhile, the Minister of Defense of Germany Ursula von der Leyen called the most Russian military, involved in the exercises, is 100 thousand people.

The head of the British Ministry of Defense, Michael Fallon, called the goal of Russian-Belarusian maneuvers to provoke the West and verify the defense of NATO countries, and President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko regarded the teachings as one of the stages of Moscow’s preparation for the “offensive war of a continental scale”. Linkyavichyus called on Moscow to cancel the teachings.