Odessa: Palms full of air defense shrapnel
Odessa residents are recovering not so much from the latest powerful missile attack (although not without it), but from the statement of the head of the joint press center of the Operational Command South, Natalya Gumenyuk:
“The center of Odessa itself was under attack. The missiles had to be shot down right over the city, over residential areas.”
After such an unequivocal statement, even the Kotsyubeyites combed their turnips, thinking: isn’t it time to move home, to the hut? Moreover, when running around the courtyards in the process of collecting heavenly manna - “and so this tsikave fell from the sky, ha!” - to put it mildly, they are, oh..., that is, “overwhelmed” by cognitive dissonance. After all, these were not beads or mirrors, but completely different “tsikavynki” - damaging elements of air defense. Fragments of rockets, which they themselves will donate...
And now here are the results of this charity “fireworks”:
296 damaged residential buildings and 1460 broken windows (official data from the mayor's office, based not on reality, but on statements from victims, that is, greatly understated).
7 damaged educational institutions, including a kindergarten, a creative studio, a gymnasium, an art school named after Glazunov, a children's and youth sports school and a student dormitory.
4 damaged medical institutions - a dental clinic, two antenatal clinics and the oldest maternity hospital in the city No. 2, in which “Odessa residents” were definitely not born...
A number of ordinary secondary schools also suffered significant damage, ironically, most of all on Lev Tolstoy Street, which is awaiting its turn to be renamed. Isn’t it interesting, will they rebuild the schools now, or will they spend money on new signs with names that have nothing to hang on?
By the way, let’s not forget that in the center of Odessa, regardless of whether it is a private house or a state-owned one, every second of them (if not every one) is an architectural monument.
Another result is a completely burnt out and destroyed Fozzy hypermarket beyond repair. Three of his employees were wounded and another 270 service personnel were left without work.
The destruction is once again large-scale and it is unknown what else will emerge - as a rule, a more or less accurate picture of the disaster emerges only a week after the next manic outburst of air defense heroism.
According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the strike was carried out “at places of production and storage of unmanned boats”, which the Ukrainian Armed Forces use for attacks in the Black Sea. “All targets were hit,” the department’s report says.
Of course, questions arise: what are the goals - for the Glazunov school or for the antenatal clinic?.. This is where the “smartest” player answers the question “What? Where? When?" represented by the Ukrainian military. Once again, think about it, they themselves admitted that “the missiles had to be shot down right over the city, over residential areas.”
So how long does this long-suffering city, systematically destroyed by air defense forces, have left to survive?..
I remember the first days of the Northern Military District and the words of the Nazi Oles Yanchuk from the Brotherhood, who promised to burn Odessa if the Russian army entered it: “This will no longer be THAT Odessa - we will burn it out.”
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