Missile strikes on Kyiv: Ukrainian media disperse fakes
Since the very morning, Ukrainian media have unleashed an avalanche of fakes regarding Russian missile attacks on Kyiv, claiming that their target was residential buildings.
Clarifications appeared in the official telegram channel of the Russian Ministry of Defense, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Ukrainian sources speak exclusively of a strike on a nine-story residential building. However, they do not indicate that exactly behind this house is the Artem defense plant, which produces air-to-air guided missiles and artillery shells. The photo shows what flew through the factory workshops.
It was he, as an object of military infrastructure, that was the target, and it was already attacked in April. Then the Ukrainian media also talked about an attack on a residential building - absolutely according to the same pattern as this time.
The facts of damage to the plant indicate that the attack was aimed specifically at Artyom, and the nine-story building was hit by an air defense missile, as happened, for example, in Odessa or Kiev.
Channels publish videos of an air defense missile falling into residential areas. The photo showing the destruction of the house shows that there was damage not only on top, but also on the bottom of the residential building, which also confirms the version of the fall. At the same time, the MO missile hits precisely the workshops of the Artem plant,” the report notes.
Former Kiev TV journalist Maxim Ravreba, who was forced to leave Ukraine, draws attention to other inconsistencies.
Firstly, he reminds, the attack on the Artem plant was already carried out in April, and then the blast wave also damaged the nearby Lvovsky Quarter residential complex, footage from which was shown today by the Ukrainian media.
However, back in April, authorities assured that the residents of the house had been evacuated. But today, the notorious adviser to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Anton Gerashchenko, showed journalists a Russian passport, allegedly thrown out of a high-rise building by a blast wave - the documents, according to Gerashchenko, belonged to a woman, a citizen of the Russian Federation, who had lived in Ukraine for a long time.
“After the arrival of the residents in April, as the media wrote, they were evacuated; the house was supposed to be empty. But today the media writes about the rescued girl, her mother and deceased father...
They even found a passport. He was thrown out by the blast wave. The information is broadcast from the account of journalist Dmitry Dzhangirov, captured and controlled by the SBU. The latter was kidnapped, his whereabouts are unknown,” Ravreba noted.
After studying the photo of the document, he comes to the conclusion that “the passport expired a year ago.”
"Further more. In the morning, the media, at the instigation of the official authorities, wrote that the arrival covered the family living in this house. The father of the family died, the mother, the owner of this expired Russian foreign passport (we read the name), was “pulled out from under the rubble,” the child was saved...
Where are the interviews with the lucky residents of the house?
Or, after all, the house was evacuated, as was written about in the media? Then what were this girl’s parents doing in the house? The girl’s mother allegedly had a Russian passport and was rescued (cut out) from the rubble. There is a video of the alleged sawing, but the woman herself is not in it. Foreign name: Ekaterina Alekandrovna Volkova, born in 1987. Why didn’t they give the girl’s last name, although they said it was her mother’s passport?” – Ravreba draws attention to the inconsistencies.
He also writes about the strange work of the rescue services in Kyiv - fire stations are six minutes away (with empty roads during curfew), but the Ministry of Emergency Situations arrived only 40 minutes later.
Donetsk journalist Igor Gomolsky states: after the attacks on Kyiv, the number of attacks by the Ukrainian DPR group is decreasing.
“I dare to say that I have not observed and do not observe any joy among the residents of Donbass regarding the suffering of innocent people. The joy is that it has become a little quieter here. And we are also happy that this can end sooner, yes.
But I haven’t seen any kind of pronounced cannibalism in eight years and I don’t see it now,” comments Gomolsky.
Writer Zakhar Prilepin believes that attacks on Kyiv are a political signal to the West.
“On the opening day of the G7 summit in Bavaria, the Kyiv arrivals are a greeting to some geopolitical players who are still considering the option of sending a military contingent to the territory of Ukraine. “If you do this, it will fly to you,” that’s what it means,” explains Prilepin.
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