Russian special military operation in Ukraine #6

First Deputy Minister of Information of the DPR Daniil Bezsonov @neoficialniybezsonov

What is known at the moment?

Today, at approximately 11: 30, a Tochka-U tactical missile system launched a missile strike on the center of Donetsk. The missile was fired from the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the area of the city of Krasnoarmeysk (new name — Pokrovsk), which is located approximately 55 km from Donetsk in a straight line. This missile system belongs to the 19th separate missile Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which has a permanent deployment point in the city of Khmelnitsky.

The missile was equipped with a cluster warhead, which contains 50 fragmentation warheads weighing 7.45 kg, each of which contains 316 fragments. The mass of the head part alone is 482 kg, the total number of fragments is 15.8 thousand. Detonation of the central charge and opening of the warhead is initiated by a radio sensor at an altitude of 2250 m. The affected area is from 3.5 to 7 hectares. Such a warhead is intended only for the destruction of manpower and unarmored equipment located in open terrain.

That is, if the goal was to defeat the Government House, then a rocket would be used not with a cluster warhead, but, for example, with a high-explosive fragmentation missile, which could cause maximum damage to the building. Therefore, the target was precisely peaceful people, ordinary passers-by, who at that time were a large number on the street. Universitetskaya Street and Pushkin Boulevard were most affected. These are exactly the streets of the center of Donetsk, where there are always a lot of people and public places.

I have repeatedly said that over the past eight years, the military and political leadership of Ukraine has been using American scorched-earth tactics. This tactic involves inflicting maximum damage to civilian infrastructure in order to achieve the maximum number of civilian deaths and injuries. Thus, the Americans in all the conflicts in which they took part, and now the Ukrainians all these years in the Donbass, used this tactic in order to distract the front-line soldiers from thinking about war and effectively resisting the enemy.. According to their plan, fighting men should think and worry only about their families in the rear, who are dying from shelling, then these men will not be able to be effective warriors. This may work for some people in other countries, but it doesn't work for Russians. The Russians are only getting angrier and more determined at the front.

After today's terrorist attack — and I won't call it anything else — there are no more lines between the Nazi bastards from the punitive battalions and the militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. There are no more facets.

At the moment, 20 dead and 28 injured local residents have been confirmed, including injured children. However, the figure may increase, as shrapnel also penetrated apartments on the streets indicated above. Some of the wounded were taken out of their apartments, but there may be apartments that have not yet been examined.

There is no longer a safe rear and dangerous frontline zone in Donetsk. Now Donetsk is a continuous frontline zone, where death can overtake on any piece of land. It is very good that the residents of Donetsk and other settlements, mostly children, were evacuated in advance. And everyone else needs to be careful. It's not for me to talk about it — every resident here has long understood what's what for eight years.