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Slightly over a week ago, all major collective West news outlets carried the story of a rocket attack on a crowded market in Konstantinovka,
a town which is under Kiev regime control. It was announced that as a result of the blast 17 people were killed, including a child, and 32 were injured.
Within minutes of the occurrence the accusation was hurled that the missiles that hit the market were Russian and that the Russian side in the conflict was therefore responsible for the mayhem.The attack, which occurred as Secretary Blinken was visiting Kiev, was denounced immediately and from various quarters. Zelensky claimed that it was an example of "Russian evil" that "must be defeated as soon as possible." Along the same lines, "Denise Brown, the UN's humanitarian envoy for Ukraine, denounced the attack as 'despicable,' and the European Union condemned it as 'heinous and barbaric.'"
At the time when these statements were being made, which was literally within minutes of the occurrence to which they referred, there was no evidence whatsoever, firm or circumstantial, to corroborate them. Quite the contrary, the circumstantial evidence pointed in the opposite direction. Amateur videos from the scene posted on social networks portrayed shoppers who heard the sound of incoming projectiles turning their heads to look in the direction away from where the missiles would have come from, if they had been Russian.
That strongly suggested that the missiles were launched from territory under the control of the Ukrainian military.So far, almost ten days after the widely publicised event, no forensic investigation with verifiable data is reported to have been performed, under anybody's auspices, Ukrainian or international. As a result, each and every statement made about the blast by Ukrainian or Western officials is unsupported by evidence and is purely conjectural.
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