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During the Zapad 2017 military exercise, what appears to be a pair of Ka-50 Black Shark attack helicopters, are seen flying low towards the target while a man casually walks into the frame. A second later. Boom! According to reports, the incident took place at Luzhsky range near St. Petersburg earlier this week. The same report mentions that there appeared to be a technical glitch and that, “The missiles blasted off on their own.” The injured are reportedly journalists who were there to cover the wargames.

Russian officials and Orthodox priests on Tuesday unveiled a statue in Moscow of inventor Mikhail Kalashnikov, whose iconic AK-47 assault rifle has claimed countless lives worldwide. Culture minister Vladimir Medinsky praised the inventor and called the rifle — which has been reproduced an estimated 100 million times worldwide — a “cultural brand for Russia.” Kalashnikov had “the best traits of a Russian: an extraordinary natural gift, simplicity, integrity,” Medinsky said. Born in a Siberian village in 1919, Mikhail Kalashnikov died in December 2013 in Izhevsk, the capital of the Russian republic of Udmurtia, where he lived. Six months before his death he wrote to the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, expressing regret for his role in making the world’s most commonly used rifle. “My spiritual pain is unbearable,” he wrote in the letter which was later published in the Izvestia newspaper.