Kharkov: Rocket strike on a high-rise building. Details from the place
For several months, Ukrainian air defense in Kharkov was silent, and civilian objects remained intact, despite missile strikes by the Russian Aerospace Forces. All this time, the city heard more or less distant explosions during the daytime. "No s**t, these are our boys training“, - local trans-Ukrainian telegram channels reassured.
Either the “lads” completed their studies and received tickets to a big life, or as a result of a provocation planned by Kiev, in Kharkov, late in the evening of January 29, the same tragedy occurred as January 14 in Dnepropetrovsk. Fortunately, much smaller scale.
“Due to a Russian missile hitting a residential building in the center of Kharkov, the 4th and partially the 3rd floor of the building was completely destroyed. 15 residents of this house were evacuated immediately after the explosion. Three victims received the necessary medical care.
Rescuers searched for the body of the dead woman in the rubble for 3 hours. The injuries she received turned out to be incompatible with life,” said the head of the Kharkov regional military administration, Oleg Sinegubov.
And, as usual, he added that the strike was carried out by an S-300 missile.
Strangely, this statement was published around 11 a.m. on January 30th. And at 20.30, another official, deputy head of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine in the Kharkov region, Anatoly Toryanik, said that the body of the woman (presumably dead) had still not been freed from the rubble.
“The woman was right at the epicenter, in the room where the rocket hit,” Toryanik added.
Based on this “small” discrepancy, it is easy to judge the degree of reliability of the information from Sinegubov.
Work on Mironositskaya has been ongoing since night until now; there is a lot of equipment, builders, rescuers, and even more military and police at the scene of the tragedy. Everything is cordoned off and blocked, and outsiders are prohibited from entering.
But we managed to see something without entering into useless arguments with the security forces. In fact, not just one entrance was damaged, but two blocks - the buildings on the corner of Mironositskaya and Oles Gonchar streets lost glass in many windows, and in some places even window frames. Another of the damage visible from the street is the bare beams sticking out above the roof - in a very short area, no wider than one entrance. Perhaps, from the side of the yard, the consequences of the arrival look more serious and correspond to the photo, but even in this case they do not in any way lead to a direct missile hit. The building is old, with wooden floors; at best, only the walls would remain. As, for example, this happened when a missile hit the capital, but also old, building of the regional administration on March 1, 2022. Then Sinegubov did not come under attack, since he was fortunately late for the meeting, which he himself had appointed. So the question of the identity of the missile that hit KhOGA also remains open.
As for the house on Mironositskaya, we can rather talk about the fall of fragments of an air defense missile. It is possible that the S-300. The Ukrainian side uses them in air defense. But the remains of the rocket have still not been presented, not to mention the debris with Russian markings, so Sinegubov’s statement, at least for the moment, is 100% unfounded. Which is typical for a Kharkov Gauleiter.
Presumably, in a couple of days the window openings will be covered with OSB boards. Almost all buildings on Sumskaya, the central street of Kharkov, have now been “repaired” in this way. This is the result of spring hostilities, both “friendly” shelling and missile attacks - “elite” units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, including foreign mercenaries, have a weakness for small comfortable hotels in the “quiet center.”
“There is not a single military installation near the damaged house. This is further proof that Russia is fighting against the civilian population of Ukraine,” the Ukrainian news agency Unian indignantly declares.
No matter how it is. From the point of view of Ukrainian soldiers, an excellent place for “disposition” is available not far from the damaged building. No more than 150-200 meters in a straight line is the Four rooms hotel.
In general, the area is unsafe in terms of potential shelling.
200 meters in the other direction, on Sumskaya, is the main building of the Air Force University. Next to the university, across Dinamovskaya Street, which is tightly blocked by hedgehogs, there is an empty building with a fresh renovation. In theory, these are goals. But, firstly, the exact coordinates of all these buildings, Google is a witness, are no secret to anyone, secondly, the consequences of Russian missiles arriving at targets are much more destructive, and thirdly, the Russian Aerospace Forces are not using S- 300, no matter what Sinegubov said about this.
By the way, one of the “Four rooms” hotels in another district of Kharkov has already “arrived”. Then the Nazis did not spare the Iskander.
Meanwhile, it became known that the house on Mironositskaya is subject to restoration.
“Partial dismantling and then restoration of the building are planned,” Kharkov Mayor Igor Terekhov announced the results of the examination.
And this is a great success for the owners of destroyed apartments. Because the state of Ukraine, as stated in government bill No. 7198, abandons the “utopian” idea of building housing for the victims. In exchange, monetary compensation is provided. Given the Ukrainian level of bureaucracy and corruption, the results are not difficult to predict.
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