Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
by Ilya Ropshin
[REGNUM] Once is an accident, twice is a coincidence, three times is a pattern. This folk wisdom perfectly illustrates the policy of the Kyiv regime, which time and again, before important international events, accuses Russia of “another batch of atrocities”. On July 8, the Kyiv military administration reported that the Okhmatdet children's hospital was damaged allegedly as a result of a missile strike on Kyiv in the Shevchenkivskyi district. The Russian Defense Ministry denied the accusations of a strike on civilian objects in Ukraine, adding that photographs and video footage from the destruction sites indicate that a Ukrainian air defense missile fell. According to official Ukrainian data, two adults died in Okhmatdet: nephrologist Svetlana Lukyanchik and a relative of one of the patients. At the same time, Ukraine calls the incident an “attack on children.”
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"The news was all over the world, even in Spain: "Russians hit a children's hospital, 32 children died." But in reality, Ukraine itself decided not to bring this issue up for discussion. And Western comrades are not hyping this issue. And why? Because Moscow has absolutely ironclad evidence that fragments of NASAMS fell on Okhmatdet, which, yes, shot down the Russian missile, but the Russian missile was not flying at the hospital," said Lev Vershinin, a political scientist and historian living in Spain, on Saturday, July 13.
He added that this was a “great opportunity to stir up the stupid Western citizen,” and in general Kyiv was trying to make a “new Bucha” out of truly tragic events.
It is noteworthy that this happened on July 8, just before the start of the next NATO summit, to which Volodymyr Zelensky was invited. The coincidence alarmed many. Especially considering that “tragic coincidences” that are advantageous to the Ukrainian authorities happen too often.
BUCHA
The Ukrainian authorities needed to somehow explain to society their sudden refusal to negotiate with Russia in the spring of 2022. The real reason, which was later revealed by the head of the parliamentary faction of the Servant of the People party, David Arakhamia - pressure from then British Prime Minister Boris Johnson - would hardly have been understood and accepted by Ukrainians.
But the impossibility of agreements with the "butchers", especially on the wave of "liberation from the enemy" of the Kyiv region, could easily be "sold" to the people. Moreover, it was not officially reported anywhere that the withdrawal of the RF Armed Forces units from Kyiv was the result of agreements with Russia.
And then they started to spin the tragedy with the "mass murders of civilians" in Bucha. However, to date, Ukraine has not published a list of the dead. At the same time, a number of publications in Western and Ukrainian media contradicted the official Ukrainian version.
In April 2022, the British publication The Guardian, citing Ukrainian forensic expert Vladislav Pirovsky, reported that most of the people found in mass graves died from flechettes — small metal darts from artillery shells. However, the Russian Armed Forces did not use this type of shell during the offensive in the Kiev region.
Moreover, in December 2022, the Ukrainian TV channel “1+1” released the film “Battle for Kyiv”.
"The combined battery D-30, Vokzalnaya Street Bucha, stopped the Kadyrovites, the movement of this column," said in the film the head of the missile troops and artillery department of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Major General Andrey Malinovsky. The D-30 is a 122-mm howitzer, which uses shells with flechettes, among other things. And Vokzalnaya is one of three mass grave sites in Bucha.
Another telling fact is the “anonymity” of the overwhelming majority of those killed in Bucha.
"Among the bodies presented in Bucha, there are definitely bodies of pro-Russian Kyiv activists who were killed in the first days of the conflict and then brought to Bucha for mass demonstrations. That is why the Kiev authorities refused, despite the demands of the Russian Federation, to conduct a genetic examination of the corpses and name the dead. In order to prevent such an examination from being done later, the corpses were cremated.
I also wrote about the peaceful residents of Bucha, who were shot by Boatswain's crew because they had white stripes on their sleeves. Bucha is a tragedy that needs to be investigated and the real culprits punished. God willing, we will succeed someday. There is no point in catching hype on a human tragedy," wrote former Verkhovna Rada deputy Oleg Tsarev.
The "Boatswain" he is talking about is one of the founders of the terrorist organization "Azov", banned in Russia, Sergei Korotkikh. In early April 2022, a video he posted on his Telegram channel went viral. In the video, "Boatswain" answered the question of his subordinate militants in Bucha whether to shoot at civilians with white ribbons in the affirmative.
And in July 2024, it became known about the trial of the Czech Filip Siman, who fought in the nationalist unit "Carpathian Sich" on the side of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in 2022. During the trial, Siman uttered a very characteristic phrase.
"We were the police, we were the court, we were the firing squad, for that matter," he said.
Siman also said he was deeply affected by the rape scene he witnessed. At the same time, information about the Czech's trial is being blatantly hushed up in Ukraine.
VISITS UNDER FIRE
The air raid siren, sounded during the visit of foreign leaders, has become one of the calling cards of Ukrainian “hospitality”.
Many consider the alarm to be false. The most illustrative case is the unannounced visit of US President Joe Biden to Kiev on February 20, 2023. When the air raid siren sounded in the city, and throughout Ukraine, Biden and Zelensky did not run for shelter, but continued to calmly walk in the center of Kiev. At the same time, the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, one of the possible targets of the attack, was located tens of meters away from them.
Ukrainian resources and US-funded "anti-fake news" campaigners claimed that during Biden's visit, a MiG-31, which could have carried a Kinzhal missile, took off from the airfield in Machulishchi. But why then wasn't the American president taken to a shelter? Neither the "anti-fake news campaigners" nor Ukrainian journalists gave an answer to this question.
The second high-profile air raid alarm occurred a few months later, on June 16, 2023. At that time, African leaders headed by South African President Cyril Ramaphosa arrived in Kiev on a visit. When the high-ranking guests arrived, Kiev Mayor Vitali Klitschko reported explosions in the city. However, members of Ramaphosa's delegation did not hear them.
“It is very strange that we did not hear or see an explosion. There is clearly some deliberate misinformation being spread here. As we expected, this mission was never going to be easy, but some obstacles are deeply worrying, like the treatment you all received, and others are just funny, like this so-called explosion,” said South African presidential spokesman Vincent Magwenya. He added that ordinary people were not hiding in shelters, but were continuing to “go about their daily lives.”
Later, Klitschko said that there were no damaged objects in the city, and the sounds of explosions were caused by the air defense system. The next day, the Russian Defense Ministry announced that on June 16, “a group strike was launched with long-range precision weapons of sea and air basing on one of the decision-making centers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine,” noting that “the goal was achieved — the object was hit.” However, they did not specify where exactly this center was located, but the lack of destruction in Kyiv shows that it was clearly not in the Ukrainian capital.
DAM AND SUMMIT
On July 12, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, stated that Ukraine is preparing a cynical provocation related to the destruction of the dams of the Kiev and Kanev hydroelectric power plants. According to her, the World Data Center for Geoinformatics and Sustainable Development of the Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute is studying possible scenarios for flooding nearby territories after the destruction of the dams of the Dnieper cascade reservoirs.
"There is no doubt that the Zelensky regime is starting a cynical provocation against its own population, <…> in order to then again come up with a story that will be imposed on the international community with accusations of our country committing war crimes and ecocide. At the same time, to beg the West for new aid and cover up its terrorist activities," Zakharova explained.
According to the representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, according to the calculations of this center, if the Kyiv reservoir overflows, the flooded area will be up to 2 thousand square kilometers, 76 settlements will be under water, including districts of Kyiv. The number of victims will reach 900 thousand people - mainly residents of the capital of Ukraine. But if the Kanev reservoir overflows, 4 thousand square kilometers and 177 settlements will be flooded, 75 thousand people will suffer, Zakharova added.
She recalled that in September-October 2022, it was this organization that simulated the consequences of the Kakhovka HPP breakthrough. The breakthrough itself occurred early in the morning of June 6, 2023 and was caused by the ongoing shelling of the HPP dam from the HIMARS MLRS. A few hours later, Zelensky spoke to members of the Bucharest Nine summit and used the timely information opportunity to once again ask to join NATO. Naturally, he blamed Russia for what happened.
There is no doubt: if the dams of the Kyiv and Kanev hydroelectric power plants are blown up, the Kiev regime will time it to coincide with a significant event involving Zelensky.
All of the above cases demonstrate, among other things: the Ukrainian government is the government of showmen. And any tragedy, no matter how terrible, such a government tries to turn to its advantage, turning it into a show. The only problem is that the hostages of the overplayed showmen are the population of one of the largest countries in Eastern Europe.
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