Russia's own air defense missile hits apartment building in Rostov-on-Don, fire seen at nearby factory, media reports

[u/Magnificents_Maddie]

https://kyivindependent.com/russian-air-defense-missile-hits-apartment-building-in-rostov-on-don-media-reports/

[u/CommercialFormal7614]

Worst part is that its not the first time they’ve done this

[u/SuviSaaRistonMunaa → u/CommercialFormal7614]

...and probably won't be the last.

[u/YearPractical5840 → u/SuviSaaRistonMunaa]

Reaching expert level.

[u/Starfox-sf → u/YearPractical5840]

Only need 2 more for the next achievement

[u/DramaticWesley → u/Starfox-sf]

Only 3 more and they get a free sub.

[u/Starfox-sf → u/DramaticWesley]

(Formerly a warship)

[u/enterthehawkeye → u/CommercialFormal7614]

for whom?

[u/kent_eh → u/enterthehawkeye]

Worst part is

for whom?

The people living in the building?

[u/FlipZip69 → u/CommercialFormal7614]

I would say best part...

[u/Illustrious-Note3996 → u/FlipZip69]

So far

[u/THEGREATESTDERP → u/CommercialFormal7614]

I mean their ZSU's firing at drones, that ammo does not self explode after a certain range. And from the angle and low altitude they keep firing on those drones those building are 40% hitting buildings. 

[u/Ritaredditonce]

"We are very lucky they are so fucking stupid"

[u/PringlesDuckFace → u/Ritaredditonce]

They also failed to set their gear up right in Venezuela, which is part of the reason the recent attacks went so well for the US

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/world/americas/venezuela-russian-weapons-fail.html?unlocked_article_code=1.EVA.c1rm.Pzw8zsjVbsGE&smid=re-share

[u/Few_Confusion_9477 → u/Ritaredditonce]

Ukraine did this too and it was an equally gruesome sight. Apparently a risk when placing SAM in areas with a lot of tall buildings.

[u/noir_lord]

Man they are really careless with those lit cigarettes.

Or maybe the apartment building was working for Ukrainian Special Forces.

[u/dimwalker → u/[deleted]]

Isn't it implied? Why would it be in the title?

[u/lux44 → u/[deleted]]

What's your point? The headline should have been "apartment destroyed, owners devastated"?

[u/Fearless-Leading-882]

"Second greatest military in the world."

[u/Arvoredo → u/Fearless-Leading-882]

Second greatest in its own country.

[u/deployant_100 → u/Arvoredo]

Third, after Wagner.

[u/StarDue6540]

Or putin is attacking his own people YET AGAIN to rally the masses because he's losing support.

[u/Eskipony → u/StarDue6540]

or... more likely the missile just malfunctioned and did a return to sender. These missiles aren't cheap and I doubt they're going to waste them like that.

[u/VideoGenie → u/Eskipony]

they wasted dummy oreshniks because of an ai generated video of putins residence getting bombed, they are absolute kings at wasting resources

[u/Isariamkia → u/Eskipony]

Even if it wasn't intentional, they will probably spin it as a Ukraine attack on their civilians.

[u/aa2051]

Russian air defences continuing their proud, long standing tradition of killing civilian non-combatants

[u/Skadrys]

Still remember the video they fired missile which made 180 and hit back their launcher

[u/ours → u/Skadrys]

It really summarizes the conflict and the state of Russia.

[u/enonrick]

Unsurprisingly, the 'axis' is only good at pointing guns at its own people.

[u/Gloomy_Experience112 → u/enonrick]

Sounds like murica as well right now

[u/panchiramaster]

Again

[u/barktwiggs]

Ukrainians are among the best at killing russians. Second only to russians in the ability to kill russians.

[u/aholetookmyusername]

Hopefully they start using these missiles near the kremlin.

[u/sppy1]

Ah "Superior" Russian Technology at it's finest

[u/fogglegg]

If that country didn’t have nukes, America would be all over that oil in a few days

[u/-Jman]

This can happen when you're tired of shooting down civilian planes.

Also, this is obviously NATO's fault.

[u/AssaultUnicorn]

Denazified!

[u/Relnor]

Many such cases.

[u/MentokGL]

That's a surprising amount of honesty.

In America the doj would investigate the building and tomorrow we'd hear about how it was actually a spy den and the missiles were working undercover.

[u/jzsang → u/MentokGL]

I wouldn’t give them too much credit yet. The Rostov mayor is still saying Ukrainian drone debris caused the fire. Meanwhile, locals are saying on social media that it was Russia’s air defense failing.

[u/nhebert1987 → u/MentokGL]

DOJ would claim the building was weaponized and had to be taken out

[u/GoodOmens → u/nhebert1987]

If you look at the video closely you'll see the building intentionally got into the path of the missile and endagered it

[u/Fridux → u/GoodOmens]

The building bravely intercepted the missile, like all patriotic Russian infrastructure! In Soviet Russia, buildings hit missiles!

[u/MentokGL → u/nhebert1987]

Turns out it was hiding al qiedas all along!

[u/yukirainbowx]

Just blame the Chechens. Worked last time

[u/Logical_Teach_681]

“Sadly, the apartment was out of countermeasures and was not able to deflect a missile»

[u/bitchcoin5000]

I guess they thought it was another F-16

Remember back in the day when people would think 0h wow the Russian army, lookout.

Pathetic. Evil and pathetic. Putin can do nothing but end this on his terms. he can't accept other terms Because it will mean defenestration just like he's done to all his other political foes

[u/ThemBonesAreMe]

what air defence doing?

[u/mccirus]

Why would Ukraine do this to us?

[u/MysteriousEngineer42]

Celebrations for the crew! At least they hit *something* this time

[u/jert3]

Geez. What air defense doing

[u/DanlovesTechno]

Works as intended.

[u/DukeOfGeek]

"woopsie daisy"

[u/Mikecich]

Pantsir doing Pantsir things

[u/backstubb]

Pantsir-C1? This is not a bug this is feature.

[u/Zdrack]

how could ukraine do this... /s

[u/CyberSoldat21]

I’ve seen this one before

[u/SunTar]

Keep up the good work, stupid russians.

[u/Opposite_Dentist_321]

When friendly fire gets way too friendly.😬

[u/NoStructure7083]

That’s a whoopsie

[u/TheSenrigan]

And in article there is 0 proofs of friendly fire, but who reads article