A spokeswoman for the Ukrainian Armed Forces in southern Ukraine suggested that the Russian missile attacks that have taken place since Thursday night are retaliation for the sinking of the Russian cruiser Moskva. Natalia Humeniuk said the attack “affected not only the ships but also the enemy’s imperial ambitions”. Russia confirmed that it carried out attacks on the outskirts of the capital Kiev on Friday (15).
The Ukrainian spokeswoman told a news conference that after the attack on the Russians, “we all realize that we will not be forgiven”.
Ukraine said two of its anti-ship missiles hit the cruiser Moskva, while the Kremlin said only that a fire on board led to the eventual sinking of the flagship of its Black Sea fleet.
Humeniuk said that “when the ammunition detonated, it showed that they were loaded enough to continue destroying Ukraine. The impact led to the detonation of the ammunition, they began to fight for survival.”
“We saw other ships trying to help the cruiser, but even nature was on Ukraine’s side because the storm did not allow for a rescue operation or evacuation of personnel,” she continued.
Humeniuk has referenced Russian missile strikes in the south since Thursday night after the attack on Moskva.
“Currently there is an attack in Mykolaiv. We see that this is again the use of cluster munitions prohibited by international conventions,” she said. This type of ammunition opens and launches a series of smaller bombs, which are not guided, follow in free fall. Between 10% and 40% of cases, bombs fail to explode on time, resulting in regions and countries infested with tens of thousands of unexploded and highly unstable submunitions.
Humeniuk said the situation in the Mykolaiv and Kherson regions “is characterized by the fact that the enemy uses its brutal ways in placing equipment and units between local civilians and civilian infrastructure such as schools, kindergartens, hospitals and residents’ courtyards.” locations.”
“Then at night they disappear from these positions, leave the villages and bomb them, while accusing the Ukrainian Armed Forces of bombing civilians,” she said.
“Such actions are conducted to justify their status as liberators in the occupied territories,” he added.
“We realize that attacks on us will increase, that the enemy will try to take revenge,” Humeniuk said. “We are ready, we are resisting.”
Source: CNN Brasil
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