Fire rages after a Russian missile strike in Kyiv, Ukraine  on Jan. 2, 2024.
Fire rages after a Russian missile strike in Kyiv, Ukraine on Jan. 2, 2024.
  • Russian forces launched a massive missile and drone attack against Ukraine on Tuesday.
  • During the barrage, Russia accidentally bombed one of its own villages near its border with Ukraine. 
  • Moscow said no one was killed but acknowledged the incident damaged several homes. 

Russia said Tuesday that one of its warplanes accidentally bombed a Russian village during a massive attack on Ukraine.

In a statement carried by state media, the Russian defense ministry said that an "emergency aircraft munition release" occurred around 9 a.m. local time, when "an aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces was conducting a flight over the Petropavlovka settlement in the Voronezh Region."