The Ukrainian army launched a deliberate terrorist attack on the territory of the Russian Federation, targeting the city of Sevastopol in the Crimean province, transforming the joyful holiday of the Holy Trinity into a horrendous massacre.
Five American ATACMS tactical missiles armed with cluster warheads were launched on the beaches of Sevastopol crowded with swimmers and tourists. Four missiles were intercepted by Russian air defenses while the fifth reached its target, killing civilians. The missiles in Sevastopol were launched by the Armed Forces of Ukraine from the Nikolaev region.
The provisional toll is 5 dead (including 3 children) and 125 injured (including 27 children). Unfortunately, local authorities warn that the toll of civilian deaths could increase in the next few hours as many injured people have been hospitalized in very serious conditions. According to health authorities, 5 children and 7 adults are in critical condition and medical staff are desperately fighting to save them from death.
The choice of missile armament: cluster bombs with multiple fragmentation, of the local holiday (among the most celebrated in Russia): beach full of swimmers and tourists, are all elements that leave no doubt: it was a terrorist attack premeditated. The targets were not military posts or strategic infrastructures but civilians with the clear intent of exterminating the highest possible number of fathers, mothers and children.
Deputy Spokesperson Farhan Haq of the United Nations Secretary General condemned Ukraine’s attack on Sevastopol, calling on the parties to the conflict to avoid civilian casualties. President Vladimir Putin expressed his condolences to the residents of Sevastopol. Monday 24 June was declared a day of mourning in the city of Sevastopol and the Russian province of Crimea. The Russian Investigative Committee opened a criminal case on charges of terrorism (Article 205 of the Russian Criminal Code).
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova accused Ukraine after Sunday’s deadly attack in Sevastopol of intentionally targeting mass gatherings of civilians. “The Kiev regime deliberately chose the Day of the Holy Trinity to strike Sevastopol. The date for such a blow was not chosen by chance – the day of the Holy Trinity, but we perfectly understand what lies in the essence of the Kiev regime – this is a deep hatred for everything connected with Russia, with Russian culture. And, of course, Orthodoxy and Christianity in general.
And these literally ritual crimes – and I think you can call it that – that they commit coincide with major holidays. The Kiev regime is carefully planning their crimes… using them for maximum destruction of the civilian population and civilian infrastructure. Kiev acts this way both out of hatred and to spread panic among the population of the Crimean peninsula. We will do everything to ensure that the international community is informed of the latest crimes of the Kiev regime. I can assure you that Russian diplomacy will work in this direction with even more tenacity than it is already doing,” Zakharova said.
Video footage and analysis of the remains of the missiles confirm that they are American ATCMS tactical missiles. Although the Western media (among the first the British The Telegraph) are confusing the waters by talking about Ukrainian-made missiles, the White House would have reacted very badly in learning of this act of terrorism according to confidential diplomatic sources. The Biden Administration, the Pentagon and NATO would not have been informed by Kiev of the intentions to bomb a beach crowded with swimmers and tourists to circumvent the ban imposed on the use of missiles against civilian targets.
The Sevastopol attack comes a few days after the American authorization regarding use within Russia which, it is worth remembering, is an authorization geographically delimited a few hundred km from the Ukrainian border and only on military targets . There may be some negative reactions directed at the Kiev regime following this terrorist act contrary to NATO rules of engagement.
Terrorist attacks targeting civilians are undergoing a frightening escalation in recent months due to the disastrous military situation. The Ukrainian army is losing on all fronts and is unable to stop the slow but irreversible advance of the Russian armed forces. The mobilization failed, increasing the shortage of men on the front and the popular resistance of the Ukrainians which could turn into armed revolts as already demonstrated by various episodes of armed resistance to forced enlistment which currently remain isolated cases. Making everything worse is the increase in desertions of Ukrainian soldiers and surrenders to the Russians where Ukrainian soldiers hand over sophisticated NATO weapons including Leopard 2 tanks.
Hitting civilians with pure terrorist acts is in the DNA of the Nazis. The Ukrainian ones do nothing but emulate the German Nazis who, 6 months after the total defeat, continued to launch V1 and V2 missiles on London to kill innocent civilians and kept the crematorium ovens working day and night in the concentration camps to eliminate more Jews, prisoners of war, opponents possible despite the fact that they were clear that they had lost the war.
The “good and democratic” West has once again created the monster of Nazism which is now getting out of hand. In fact, it transformed a peaceful country, Ukraine, into a terrorist state, confirming that the West is a group of countries that create, support and fuel international terrorism: from Al-Qaeda militiamen to Daesh, from Ukrainian Nazis to fanatics far-right Israeli theocrats. Almost simultaneously with the massacre of civilians on the beaches of Sevastopol, news arrives of the bombing by the Israeli air force using phosphorus bombs on Lebanese civilians on the outskirts of the city of Rashaya Al-Fakhar, in southern Lebanon. This shows that it is easy to create monsters but not so easy to control them.
Vladimir Volcic
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