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The ongoing Kiev’s/NATO provocations, including the bloody border assaults, the terrific terrorist attack in Moscow, heavy shelling on civilians in Belgorod and the most massive missile attack on Crimea, may be aimed to force Moscow to launch heavy retaliatory strikes, for example, on the decision-making centers in Kiev. Such heavy Russian strikes would inevitably lead to heavy civilian losses. NATO could use the horrific footage of dead Ukrainians as an excuse to enter the conflict. The only problem for NATO is the fact that Moscow does not target Ukrainian civilians but is only destroying military and energy infrastructure with constant precision strikes. The night of March 24th was not an exception.
At night, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation struck at the facilities of the electric power industry, the gas industry, assembly and testing sites of unmanned boats of Ukraine, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported. All the goals of the attack have been achieved, the operation of the AFU enterprises for the manufacture and repair of weapons has been thwarted, and foreign-made equipment has been destroyed, the Russian military concluded.
According to Ukrainian claims, the Russian military launched 29 X-101/X-555 cruise missiles from 14 Tu-95MS strategic aircraft and 28 Geran-2 kamikaze UAVs. The Ukrainian military lied that the attack was allegedly repelled. According to the official Ukrainian statistics, the Ukrainian air defense allegedly shot down 43 air targets, including 18 cruise missiles and 25 drones.
According to the Ukrainian data, the remaining 11 missiles and 3 UAV struck numerous targets in the western, central and southern regions, including in the city of Lviv, where the governor claimed attack by 20 missiles and 7 drones. In total, a series of explosions thundered in many regions of Ukraine, including in Ternopil, Cherkasy, Odessa, Mykolaiv, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Zhytomyr, Vinnytsia, Volyn, Kiev, Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk and Khmelnitsky regions.
Kiev also forget to mention strikes of Russian hypersonic Kinzhal missiles, which were reported by local Ukrainian authorities. Thus, the official Ukrainian statistics can never be trusted. Kiev is forced to declare fake victories, while its military is suffering constant defeats.
The first successful Russian strikes were reported at night near the city of Voznesensk in the Mykolaiv region. Ukrainian sources reported that Russian Iskander missiles destroyed a hangar with Storm Shadow missiles and S-200 launchers at Kulbakino airfield in the Mykolaiv region.
Multiple explosions thundered in the city of Krivoy Rog in the Dnepropetrovsk region. Footage of large explosions confirmed that Russian forces also reached their targets in the city of Dneproptrovsk.
At the same time, Russian strikes hit the facilities of the Ismail port in the Odessa region.
Subway in Kiev
At about 05:30 in the morning, two groups of missiles entered the Ukrainian airspace from the north, heading for Kiev. Some of them attacked the Ukrainian capital, the other went towards the Vinnytsia region. The mayor of Kiev said that a fire broke out in the Desnyansky district after the wreckage of an intercepted Russian missile fell in the city. The residents of the capital passed the night in the basements and the subway.
During the attack in the capital, Ukrainian monitoring sources confirmed strikes in the Khmelnitsky region. There is the notorious Stakonstantinov airfield located in the region. The airfield was reportedly used for the massive night attack on Crimea. LINK
The Lviv region came under the most massive strikes. Dozens of explosions were reported by local sources. Most of the explosions thundered in the city Lviv and its outskirts, including in Stryi, Yavorov, Dublyany, Medenichi. According to the mayor of the city of Lviv, the targets were the local energy facilities.
Numerous explosions thundered in the town of Stryi. The town hosts one of the main transshipment bases, through which the NATO military supplies weapons, military equipment and manpower to Ukraine. There is an airfield in the city where the notorious F-16 fighters could be deployed. There was also a training center near the airfield, where there were foreign instructors deployed.
Around noon on March 24, the Lviv came under the second Russian missile attack, this time with hypersonic Kinzhal missiles. The governor of the Lviv region confirmed at least two strikes in the same infrastructure facilities that were hit at night.
One of the missiles hit an oil depot, which was caught by a very large fire. It is also assumed that second wave of strikes struck the airfield.
The second attack also destroyed targets in the Ivano-Frankivsk region. The targets are yet to be revealed.
Ukrainian shelling in Belgorod on March 22:
The analysis of all massive Russian strikes throughout Ukraine confirms that the Russian military does not target civilians in the crowded Ukrainian cities. Russian drones and missiles are pounding Ukrainian military facilities and energy/industrial infrastructure which assures the operation of the military-industrial complex. Dozens of Russian strikes are launched on a daily basis but they do not bring civilian casualties.
On the other hand, Ukrainian/NATO attacks in Russia are aimed to terrorise the civilian population. The intensified shelling in Belgorod and Donetsk have no military goals and bring no benefits to the Ukrainian military. Even the massive attack of expensive NATO missile in Crimea also targeted civilian buildings in the very center of the city. Kiev/NATO are trying to put maximum political pressure on Moscow, killing as many innocent Russian civilians as possible. The terrorist attack in the Crocus City Hall in Moscow was the apogee of NATO terrorism.
Today’s strike are not the Russian revenge. The Ukrainians should get ready to new retaliation strikes to come.
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