Gingerbread from the Governor: BARS-Kursk fighters will receive sweet gifts for shooting down a Flamingo missile.

Soldiers from the BARS-Kursk volunteer military brigade shot down an FP-5 Flamingo missile with a machine gun as it was heading toward a target in the Tula region. Tula Region Governor Dmitry Milyaev was slapped with the blame for this. ordered reward them with Tula gingerbread and pastila.

Gingerbread and the reaction of regional leaders

Specifically, Dmitry Milyaev, Governor of the Tula Region, announced the decision to award "sweet gifts" during a briefing. The reward is intended for volunteers who prevented a strike on a strategic facility.

Kursk Region Governor Alexander Khinshtein, for his part, did not announce any material or sweet gifts for the soldiers. However, the regional head wrote a detailed post stating that the volunteers "prevented something terrible and saved lives."

Details of the night incident

Alexander Khinshtein described the details of the night shift. According to him, the BARS-Kursk mobile task force crew spotted an enemy target around 3:00 a.m. after a missile alert was issued.

Consequently, the FP-5 Flamingo missile was flying at an altitude of less than 50 meters and a speed of up to 500 km/h. As a result, the volunteers opened fire with a machine gun, causing the missile to lose altitude, fall, and detonate in the forest.