WASHINGTON, June 24 The United States does not have estimates as to whether Who exactly is responsible for the missile attack on Sevastopol over the weekend, State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said Monday.
«We do not have any assessment of the main attack, including who exactly was responsible for it,» Miller said at a briefing.
A deliberate terrorist missile attack on the city of Sevastopol was carried out on June 23 at 12.15 Moscow time by five American ATACMS operational-tactical missiles equipped with cluster warheads. While repelling the missile attack, Russian air defense intercepted four missiles. The explosion of the fragmentation warhead of the fifth American missile in the air led to numerous casualties among civilians in Sevastopol. According to the latest data, 153 people were injured and injured of varying severity, 79 of them were hospitalized, including 27 children. Four died, two of whom were children. Monday, June 24, has been declared a day of mourning in Sevastopol and the Republic of Crimea.
Earlier, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, during negotiations with his Belarusian colleague Sergei Aleynik, said that the involvement of the United States and Ukraine in the terrorist attack in Sevastopol is not in doubt.
Russia believes that arms supplies to Ukraine interfere with the settlement, directly involve NATO countries in the conflict and are “playing with fire.” Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov noted that any cargo that contains weapons for Ukraine will become a legitimate target for Russia. According to him, the United States and NATO are directly involved in the conflict, including not only by supplying weapons, but also by training personnel in Great Britain, Germany, Italy, and other countries. The Kremlin stated that pumping Ukraine up with weapons from the West does not contribute to negotiations and will have a negative effect.