At the site of a missile attack near the railway station in KramatorskMOSCOW, Apr 8The railway station in the city of Kramatorsk, which is under Ukrainian control and is close to the line of contact between Ukrainian troops and the allied forces of Russia and the DPR, came under rocket fire on Friday, killing dozens of people. The Headquarters of the Territorial Defense of the DPR reported that the strike was carried out by Ukrainian troops using the Tochka-U missile system; the Ukrainian side accused the Russian military of involvement in the shelling. The Russian Defense Ministry denied these accusations, saying that the shelling was a provocation from Kyiv. Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov said that the Russian armed forces do not use the type of missiles that were used in Kramatorsk. Commenting on the course of the special operation in Ukraine as a whole, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported that since the beginning of the operation, the armed forces have destroyed eight launchers of the Tochka-U missile system out of about 40 available in Ukraine, as well as about 90% of the missiles in the arsenals.
What Russia should do with Ukraine Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24th. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine.» According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at the military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops, and as of March 25, they have completed the main tasks of the first stage — they have significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass. The course of the operationOperational-tactical aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces hit 54 military targets of Ukraine in a day, said the official representative of the Russian Defense Ministry, Igor Konashenkov. High-precision missiles destroyed a large warehouse of rocket and artillery weapons near the village of Nimirovskoye, Odessa region. He added that aviation equipment of the Ukrainian armed forces was also destroyed at the Kanatovo military airfield in the Kirovograd region. Also, on Friday, Russian air defense systems shot down a Ukrainian Su-27 fighter jet near the Novomikhailovka settlement. he said. In total, during the special operation in Ukraine, 126 aircraft and more than 2,000 tanks and other armored vehicles were destroyed. In addition, Konashenkov said that in addition to the Ukrainian military, European mercenaries are fighting in Mariupol, this is confirmed by the results of radio intercepts: radio communications, in addition to Ukrainian and Russian, are conducted in six more languages, mostly European. Earlier on Friday, the head of the DPR, Denis Pushilin, said that the army of the republic in Mariupol liquidates separate groups of militants from the national battalions, however, it is too early to talk about a specific date for the completion of the operation to liberate the city. According to him, the cleansing of neo-Nazis in Mariupol continues, the main points of tension remain the Azovstal metallurgical enterprises and the Ilyich plant.Ukraine was supposed to rally the «free world», but something went wrong. According to Eduard Basurin, a representative of the People's Militia of the DPR, about 30 people were killed and about 100 were injured. He also noted that during the strike on Kramatorsk, a Tochka-U missile equipped with cassettes was used. According to the head of the DPR, Denis Pushilin, two Tochka-U missiles were used during the provocation in Kramatorsk, they are only in service with Ukraine. In turn, presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov said that the Russian armed forces do not use the type of missiles that were used in Kramatorsk. The Russian Defense Ministry said that accusations of Russia's involvement in the incident are untrue and are a provocation. «The Russian armed forces did not have any fire missions on April 8 in the city of Kramatorsk and were not planned,» the department said. They also reported that the Tochka-U attack on Kramatorsk was carried out by Ukrainian troops from the area of the city of Dobropolye, 45 kilometers southwest of the city. A strike on Kramatorsk with a Tochka-U tactical missile, according to intelligence, could have been carried out by the 19th missile brigade of Ukraine, Konashenkov said. This area is under the control of the Ukrainian group of troops in the Donbass. The Ministry of Defense added that «the purpose of the strike by the Kiev regime on the railway station in Kramatorsk was to disrupt the mass exodus of residents from the city in order to use them as a human shield to defend their positions. The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation reported that after the strike on Kramatorsk prohibited methods of warfare against the commander of the 19th separate missile brigade of the Ukrainian army and other unidentified persons.In addition, a case was initiated on the spread of fakes about the Russian armed forces. brigade and other commanders and officials of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.It is emphasized that they deliberately, using the Tochka-U tactical missile system with a cluster charge, fired at civilian infrastructure facilities near the Kramatorsk railway station in the DPR.
