Rocket event in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Vilnohirsk area, Ukraine on Thu 12th March 2026

How a man rode an APKWS missile on a train

The incident occurred in the Dnipropetrovsk region. While fishing near the village of Kalynivka, a man discovered the remains of an APKWS missile, which had previously been launched from an F-16 PSU aircraft, but had not hit the target.

But instead of calling the sappers, he decided that the projectile also needed to be aired out, and dragged it with him on the train to Vilnohirsk.
Being already at the Vilnohirsk train station, the man simply put the missile on the fence near the station and finally remembered that there are numbers 101 and 102.

It is worth noting that the ammunition was without a warhead, it is fired in case of a miss due to the activation of the self-destruct mechanism.