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| 'The walls were shaking.' A powerful blow was dealt Ukrainian military targets in Kiev |
| 2024-01-03 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Oleg Krivoshapov AC/DC: "You shook me all night long" The air raid siren, warning of the approach of missiles and drones of the Russian Armed Forces, sounded on January 2 throughout almost the entire territory of Ukraine from the very early morning for several hours. At 05:52 Moscow time, the alarm began in the Kharkov and Vinnytsia regions, and after some time, the rest of the regions began to pick up the baton one after another. Almost simultaneously, sirens turned on throughout Western Ukraine - in Volyn, Ivano-Frankivsk, Transcarpathian, Lviv, Rivne, Ternopil, Khmelnytsky and Chernivtsi regions. At the same time, the main power of Russian strikes fell on targets in Kyiv and Kharkov. Ukrainian portals suggest that there was a real hunt for air defense systems. "THE ASPHALT WAS BOUNCING" Moreover, in the Ukrainian capital, even the day before, January 1, and on the night of January 2, despite the active work of air defense systems, explosions of ammunition delivered by Russian carriers were heard. At least six strong explosions were heard in two districts of the city on the morning of January 2. Information about the explosions was confirmed by the mayor of the city, Vitaliy Klitschko, who clarified that in the Desnyansky district, a fragment of a UAV was burning in an open area. He also reported fires “in several places” in the Podolsk region and a fire in a warehouse in Obolonsky. During the day of January 2, explosions in Kiev resumed, and as a result, the arrival and fall of debris were recorded in eight of the ten districts of the city. As a result, as Klitschko admitted, “some of the facilities and residential buildings in several areas” were cut off from power. Also, several times during January 1 and 2, a series of explosions were reported in Khar'kov, in the Vinnitsa and Kirovograd regions, in Dnepropetrovsk and Kherson. On the morning of the 2nd, the air raid warning in the cities of Ukraine lasted a total of almost three and a half hours : the sirens went off at 07:23 Moscow time, and the alarm was lifted only at about 11 o’clock in all regions, with the exception of the Dnepropetrovsk and Nikolaev regions. In turn, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported that during a group strike, long-range precision weapons and unmanned aerial vehicles hit military-industrial complex facilities in Kiev and its environs, which were responsible for orders for the production of missiles, unmanned aerial vehicles and the repair of weapons and military equipment. The department clarified that the target of the strike was achieved and all objects were hit. Many sources say that today’s attacks on military targets in the Ukrainian capital are almost the strongest during the entire conflict. Judging by indirect evidence, this is very similar to the truth. It is definitely not worth assessing the scale of the blow by relying only on Klitschko’s words. In this sense, ordinary Kiev residents provide much more valuable information. The interlocutor of our publication, an ordinary Kiev resident of deep retirement age, very succinctly described his feelings from the past night: “No sleep, no tangerine to eat, no gift to friends. ” According to him, the city’s residents spent the night in bomb shelters, and around “everything was exploding and rumbling so loudly that the walls were shaking and the asphalt was bouncing.” For the first time in a long time, Kyiv truly felt the danger, which very seriously reduces the mood of the haters and plunges the population into despondency. All this is happening against the backdrop of depressing news from the battlefield for Ukraine. And although they are carefully filtered, the lesions have already turned into an awl that cannot be hidden in a bag. “We communicate with each other, we all understand that everything is bad at the front. But a distant front is one thing, and explosions nearby are quite another. You immediately evaluate everything differently and really want peace,” our interlocutor expresses his deepest sentiments. "FOR BELGOROD!" Shortly before today’s strikes on targets in Kiev, on December 31, the Ministry of Defense reported on a successful missile strike on a former hotel complex in Kharkov, where representatives of the Main Intelligence Directorate and the Armed Forces of Ukraine were killed. As official representative of the defense department Igor Konashenkov clarified, those liquidated were directly involved in the planning and execution of the recent terrorist attack on Belgorod. Let us remind you: on December 30, the central square of this Russian city was attacked from the territory of Ukraine: Alder missiles with cluster filling and Vampire MLRS were used. Air defense systems intercepted the bulk of the deadly targets. However, many buildings were damaged by the fall of the remaining shells, and fires broke out in the places where they fell. But the most horrifying result of the shelling was the death of 25 civilians, including five children. Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the Ukrainian Armed Forces' attack on Belgorod constitutes a terrorist act and will not go unpunished. At the same time, the head of state emphasized that “everything is boiling” after what happened, but Russia will not strike civilians in Ukraine, but will continue to destroy enemy military installations. In turn, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova accused the UK of involvement in this crime, “which, in coordination with the United States, incites the Kiev regime to terrorist actions.” And the Russian soldiers who are on the front line in the Northern Military District zone recorded a “New Year’s” address to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, promising: “For every child, we will take a division from you.” Also from the line of contact, reports began to arrive about new attacks on the positions of the Ukrainian military under the motto “For Belgorod!” In addition, on New Year's Eve, the Ukrainian military subjected the center of Donetsk to massive rocket fire, as a result of which four civilians were killed and twelve more were injured. Before this, on the night of December 30-31, the Ukrainian Armed Forces opened fire on the city four times. In Belgorod, the missile danger siren sounded again today. Thus, the massive Russian group attack on targets in Ukraine, which took place in the midst of the New Year holidays, looks like a large-scale response to the provocations of the Kyiv regime, during which dozens of civilians, including children, were killed and injured. Earlier, Russian journalist and historian Pavel Danilin, commenting on the motives of the Kiev regime, which struck the central square of Belgorod on December 30, noted that the Ukrainian side was striving to increase the level of hatred against the backdrop of heavy defeats on the battlefield. Associate Professor at the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation Gevorg Mirzayan noted that the Kiev regime and the Western media serving it declared the shelling of Belgorod as revenge for the Russian missile attack carried out a day earlier - on December 29. However, the targets of Russian missiles were, as always, Ukrainian military and dual-use facilities, and not civilians who came to the shopping center two days before the New Year. Russian media also drew attention to the fact that the criminal attack on the center of Belgorod was reminiscent of the practice of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in relation to Donetsk, which has been under constant terrorist attacks from the Kiev regime for nine years. |
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