© SputnikOne of the victims of Ukraine’s strike on Kherson
However, Podoliak insisted these were not acts of terrorism but legitimate strikes against purely military targets.
"Everything that happened in Berdyansk, in Melitopol, in Kherson — those are all absolutely legitimate military targets. Those are certainly not terrorist or, strictly speaking, criminal acts," Podoliak said.
At least three people were killed and 13 were wounded on Friday morning when five missiles from the US-supplied HIMARS launchers struck the administration building in Kherson, which is under Russian control. Most of them were civilian passers-by, local authorities said.
Kirill Stremousov, the deputy chair of the military-civilian administration, says the strike was intended to take him out. He survived only by chance, having accepted an invitation to appear in a TV talk show at the time of the shelling.
In Berdyansk, in the Russian-controlled part of the Zaporozhye Region, two officials of the local military-civilian administration were murdered on Friday morning. Oleg Boyko was in charge of housing and utilities, while his wife Lyudmila headed the local elections commission.
An explosion that could be heard in Melitopol on Friday was a controlled demolition of unexploded ordnance, local official Vladimir Rogov said. However, the city headquarters of the organization 'Together With Russia' was damaged by a bomb last week.
Podoliak did not take credit for the assassination of the Lugansk People's Republic head prosecutor Sergey Gorenko and his assistant Yekaterina Steglenko. They were killed on Friday when an improvised bomb detonated at the Prosecutor General's Office in Lugansk. Assassinations by Ukrainian agents have claimed the lives of a number of Donetsk and Lugansk officials over the past seven years.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that Ukraine has engaged in "terrorist attacks" against civilians and infrastructure, including attempts to damage nuclear facilities inside Russia. This behavior was unacceptable, he said, and if Kiev persists it will receive a "more serious" response from Moscow than a handful of "sensitive strikes" that damaged power stations and dams this week.
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One thing is certain though, it all serves to kill the best men of both countries and many civilians as well - I guess they need a "lot of space" for the "Ukraine Israel" aka Khazaria project, coincidentally Crimea "belonged" to them historically as well.. So let's see how far Russian army retreats and if they have the balls to step up the game OR it is all an orchestrated slaughterhouse - what coincidence they're mass privatizing Ukraine now and all the critical infrastructure owned by state is up for purchase by wealthy western investors, like happened in central Europe in the nineties.. I think there are NO coincidences, but the resulting picture is VERY ugly
Russia has, according to some estimates, about 80.000 men in the Ukraine, less than 10% of their military. The brunt of the fighting, especially infantry, is carried by the Donbas republic militias. They can easily double or quadruple their presence with mobilisation. And they can sustain it logistically, in difference to the Ukraine.
I still think they deliberately drag it on, to drain the West of reserves and weapon stock, and weaken them economically. The latter exemplified at the LNG front, with Nordstream I shut off.
I suppose they calculate the US is going instead for China & Taiwan, with the weaker fleet & submarine fleet. Having the enemy exhaust itself before as much as possible seems a viable strategy.
The Nato (meaning it's European members) are merely the tail wagging on the US dog. Militarily, one can't expect them to hold up for more than a week.
What percentage of all that grain they were desperate to export is actually owned by Western companies?
I think they needed to weaken the population with injected poison and then let them die in inhuman conditions where we're expected to NOT BE ABLE TO PAY THE BILLS unless filthy rich and that pretty much sums it all.. Ukraine is the new "promised land" and all of this is mere "birthing pains" the elites hardly care about because it hurts only us, not them..
I agree - you call for it, then don't be surprised what shows up from the skies upon your home.
mmmmmmmm....yeah....
precision of course is critical, but transparency just as much.
One can wish such khazarian parasites become target of just retribution, but seeing how Russia hesitates to do precisely that, I'm not sure about the outcome.. except for that many more civilians will die a horrible death in a conflict that's not even theirs..
I guess the only one profiting are those wanting to establish another "Israel" in Ukraine since Ashkenazi Jews (Khazars) have their roots there (after they came from somewhere in Asia) and Israel admits it, more in the link here [Link] by Wayne Madsen.. I think it all has been known in the top circles for a long time and this is just a farce on mankind to "clean the space" in Ukraine for their project, while the public is distracted by "war vs. special operation" and CIVILIANS ARE SLAUGHTERED, forced out of their own country to "make more room" for the PARASITES
So seeing Slavs killing other Slavs in the name of this USA/UK/Israel induced conflict is very sad for me personally.. Same shit that's been going on for centuries since West learned they couldn't conquer us militarily and thus relied on divide et impera and financing the wars among us..
Peace,
Ken
(Slovakiaa's UA's neighbour)
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I pray that Slovakia gets its wish.