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Attack on Chernigov. Details
2023-08-20
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

Text taken from the Live Journal site of Boris Rozhin from @nonetutto

[ColonelCassad] In Chernigov, it was not that same blow to the decision-making centers that everyone so reverently asks for after another attack on Russian territory.

This was a blow to the meeting of officers of the MTR of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and NATO from Poland and the Baltic States before making decisions in Kyiv and Warsaw.

We were going to develop a common concept for protecting the border during hybrid attacks.

Across the road from the Drama Theater was the headquarters of the Main Intelligence Directorate and the reception room of the SBU of the Counterintelligence Department. Today, a joint meeting was held there with the Polish and Lithuanian military to protect the border and counter possible attacks by the DRG from Belarus and Russia.

There were 23 people with foreign citizenship at the meeting. The same number arrived from Lvov yesterday afternoon in Chernigov. Of the 23, nine corpses were found under the rubble, the rest are still considered missing.

In the Drama Theater, more than 38 fighters and commanders of the MTR of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have been found killed. More than 75 people are seriously injured.

During the unsuccessful launch of anti-aircraft missiles of the Soviet period, two civilians were killed.

The contrail of the S-300 air defense system is visible on the video. The Armed Forces of Ukraine admitted that they unsuccessfully tried to shoot down a missile of the RF Armed Forces in the city.

Zelensky and Yermak refused to come to the scene of the tragedy in Chernigov.

The test launch of the Iskander K missile (winged equipment), capable of being equipped with TNW (low-power charge), was recognized as successful. Air defense systems of the Armed Forces of Ukraine overslept him. As well as the attack on the NATO warehouse in Kyiv this morning with the X50 missile.

No PR campaigns of intimidation (Russia is at the ready all next week) can correct the terrible result for NATO in Chernigov.

So far, 54 people have died. Three civilians. The wounded and injured exceeded 89 people.

Eleven very bad foreigners (officers from Poland and the Baltic States) were taken by air ambulance helicopter to Kyiv and from there on board to Poland. Which of them will live to see tomorrow is a big question. Senior officers and the general were taken by helicopter to Vinnitsa, where they will decide what to do next. Most likely, some of the senior officers will be lucky enough to fly to Poland and from there to Munich or Düsseldorf.

In the Chernigov Drama Theater, a BND employee who was in charge of space communications and encrypted data transmission services, assigned to NATO headquarters in Vilnius, went missing.

source: @nonetutto

More from the V Kontakte page of Tatyana Vasilyeva
Regarding the missile attack on Chernihiv, I would like to speak very briefly.

The Ukrainian side claims that the blow was allegedly delivered to the civilian population, who either came to look at the exhibits of the Ferocious Birds drone festival, or simply were near the theater where this exhibition was held.

Russian sources note that a meeting of the senior command staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and specialists involved in the development of drone technologies was held in the theater building.

In any interpretation of these events, the military drone festival is not a civilian event. And so that the Russian army does not hit the buildings of schools and theaters in Ukraine, it is obvious that there is no need to create accommodation centers for the personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Because the news: "Russia hit the school, 20 children from the battalion of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were killed, there are no minors" - this is a separate genre within the framework of a special operation.

Posted by:badanov

#2  The view from across the street.
Posted by: Enver Slager8035   2023-08-20 01:43  

#1  Russians lie.
"On August 19, the enemy launched a missile attack on the center of Chernihiv. As of 19:30, seven civilian deaths were confirmed, including a child. Also, 144 injured local residents sought medical help. Among them were 15 children and 15 police officers," the police said.
Posted by: Enver Slager8035   2023-08-20 01:37  

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