Russian missile launched from the border city of Belgorod last night misfired and instead fell down on its own territory.The strike was allegedly due to hit Kharkiv but fell down near residential buildings in the city where Kremlin weaponry is stored for attacks on UkraineFootage shared online shows the Iskander missile tearing through the sky before it starts its rapid descent down to earth and explodes in a fireball.Russian missile launched from the border city of Belgorod last night misfired and instead fell down on its own territoryThe strike was allegedly due to hit Kharkiv but fell down near residential buildings in the city where Kremlin weaponry is stored for attacks on Ukraine
Earlier this week, panicked Russians were seen desperately fleeing Belgorod after Ukraine unleashed a string of overnight missiles.
The latest Kremlin blunder shows the residents could well have been escaping their own missiles.
Footage taken from the city's railway station on Monday night shows civilians trying to cram on to the midnight train.
The mad rush came after videos were shared on Telegram of Ukrainian missiles flying over the city before they were interrupted by defence systems
The rockets exploded in bright white lights, illuminating the night sky above residential buildings.
Belgorod has been considered vulnerable to Ukrainian attacks due to its proximity to the border and its storage of Russian weaponry, with the Kremlin regularly launching strikes from the region.
Elsewhere today, Ukraine repelled Russian attacks in the direction of Bakhmut and Avdiivka, towns north of the Russian-occupied city of Donetsk, its armed forces' general staff said.
Pro-Russian troops have focused on Bakhmut in their push to extend control over the Donbas region, Ukraine's industrial heartland in its east, the general staff added on Wednesday.
Russia has denied reports of Ukrainian progress and said its troops had routed Ukrainian forces.
Separatists said today that 13 emergency service personnel were killed and nine wounded after coming under Ukrainian artillery fire in the Russian-controlled part of Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine.
'On Sept. 1, at around 4 am, a group of emergency services personnel from the DPR carrying out their tasks in the village of Rubtsi ... came under artillery fire from Ukrainian armed formations,' officials from the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) said on Telegram.
Reuters was not able to independently verify the report.comes as Russia and Ukraine accused each other of waging attacks today near Europe's largest nuclear power plant just as a team of UN inspectors were heading to visit it despite the fighting.group of inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency, led by its director Rafael Grossi, set off for the Russia-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant despite the heavy shelling that led to an emergency system shutting down one of its reactors.