What's the point of hitting a market unless your intent is to spread fear?
this post was submitted on 07 Sep 2023
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Russias tactics in this war can essentially be summed up as "shoot blindly into the crowd"
Can I get a hexbear in here to tell me if this is a good thing or not
I'm sure Russia will try to say this is a legitimate military target.
Apparently they say it's the Ukrainians shelling themselves...
Now now, give credit where credit is due - this kind of Russian attack is better filed under “false flag attack”.
"nazis everywhere buying bread and produce, trust us bro"
Ukraine: We hit a billion dollar mobel electronic warfare trailer with our rocket!
Russia: We hit a fish market!
This is the best summary I could come up with:
A Russian missile crashed into a market in the heart of a Ukrainian city Wednesday, killing at least 17 people in one of the deadliest attacks in months, officials said.
The attack on the industrial eastern city of Kostiantynivka came hours after Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in the capital, Kyiv, in a show of U.S. support.
The fiery blast came from nowhere, and within seconds debris and dust were flying into the air in video shared by Zelenskyy on Wednesday and geolocated by NBC News.
Blinken, the first top U.S. official to visit Kyiv since the counteroffensive began in early June, met with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba.
Kuleba said in an earlier Telegram post, alongside a picture of him and Blinken, that they paid their respects to "fallen heroes" at Kyiv's Berkovetske cemetery.
Ukrainian forces are fighting to turn what appears to be a minor breakthrough in the south into a substantial breach of Russian defensive lines before winter sets in.
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FWIW, the video of the attack makes it seem like the missile came from the Ukrainian direction rather than the Russian direction. This could be one of those glide vehicles, but that's rather unlikely...