Pentagon has 'nothing to say' about disgusting strike on Crimean beach with US-supplied weapons

RT
Mon, 24 Jun 2024 15:51 UTC

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The Pentagon has refused to comment on the deadly Ukrainian cluster munition attack on a crowded beach in Sevastopol, Russia on Sunday, RIA Novosti has reported. The Ukrainian attack carried out with US-supplied ATACMS missiles killed at least four people, among them two children, and injured 151, according to local officials.

Four missiles were intercepted by air defenses, while a fifth deviated from its trajectory and detonated its cluster warhead over the busy Black Sea beach, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement on Sunday.

When RIA asked the Pentagon about the use of US supplied weapons in the strike on Sunday, an official replied, "we have seen the reports and have nothing to say."

Moscow has placed the blame primarily with Washington, accusing it of enabling the "premeditated terrorist missile attack." The targets for these US-provided missiles are assigned to Ukrainian troops by American specialists, based on their own intelligence data, the Defense Ministry stated.

According to data from the flight tracker Flightradar, a US RQ-4B Global Hawk reconnaissance drone was patrolling in the Black Sea south of Crimea during the Ukrainian missile strike.

The number of people injured in the strike stood at 151 as of Sunday night, according to Sevastopol's governor, Mikhail Razvozhaev. A joint team of specialists from the Health Ministry's Federal Center for Disaster Medicine arrived in the city to work with the victims, he wrote early Monday.

Kiev deliberately chooses mass gatherings of people as targets, both out of hatred and to sow panic, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said following the attack. The day of the Holy Trinity holiday was picked deliberately, she claimed.

Ukraine has previously targeted the Crimean Peninsula with US-provided ATACMS missiles. In May, ten ATACMS were shot down on a trajectory aimed at the strategic Crimean Bridge, Russian Defense Minister Andrey Belousov said at the time.

Comment: Kiev is so delusional that they actually believe that the innocent civilians who they bombed aren't innocent at all, because to the Zelensky team all the people of Crimea are "occupiers" of Ukrainian land. Nevermind that the people of Crimea voted to join the Russian Federation. That's inconsequential to the terrorists in Kiev. Here's what Zelensky's top aide, Mikhail Podoliak, actually spoke out loud with a straight face about the attack:

"There are not and cannot be any 'beaches', 'tourist zones' and other fictitious signs of 'peaceful life' in Crimea," he wrote. "Crimea is definitely a foreign territory occupied by Russia, where hostilities are taking place, a full-scale war is ongoing."

"Crimea is also a large military camp and warehouse, with hundreds of direct military targets, which the Russians cynically try to mask and cover with their own civilians," he continued, adding that these civilians are considered "occupiers" by Kiev.

The Russian envoy to the US made it clear that this would not have been done without US involvement:

The Kremlin described the attack as an act of "terrorism," and argued that the US bears equal responsibility for the deaths. "Cluster munitions in ATACMS missiles cannot be launched without the participation of American specialists and support from US intelligence," Russia's envoy to the US, Anatoly Antonov, stated. "It is no coincidence that enemy drones are circling over the Black Sea almost every day."

This is basically a wartime act from the US against Russia. If there weren't clear heads working at the top of the Russian government, the world could already be in a world war and potentially a nuclear standoff. Russian ministry officials have already stated the the "bloody atrocity" will "not go unpunished."

Ex-US politician Ron Paul, an longtime outspoken critic of US foreign interventions, pointed out the obvious by saying Russia has no real option other than to retaliate in some way. He's correct, the internal pressure to respond will be extreme as there are likely a great deal of Russians who are very angry about this attack.

Another American lawmaker, Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene, condemned the attack and took the side that the majority of Americans have - that the US should not be involved in any of these foreign interventions:

"The only border our American military should be defending is our own border," Greene wrote on X (formerly Twitter).

Despite what the vast majority of people in the country want, the US leaders do the opposite. Anyone paying attention with two neurons firing should be able to see clearly that there is no longer a democracy in America. It's a dictatorship.