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Ukrainian SAM strike in Odessa: Grain doesn't detonate like that
2023-07-24
Direct Translation Via Google Translate. Edited.

Commentary by Russian military blogger Andrey Chervonets

Svidomo ukry write in their Bandera chats:

"The Russians bombed the church in Odessa and the warehouse with grain"

But there is a nuance.

The fact that the church was bombed by Ukrainian air defense is already a recorded fact. Thank God the 21st century is in the yard, everyone has a video camera in their hand.

The video captured that the missile that hit the Cathedral was flying from the north, northwest, where a priori there could be no Russian missiles.

Yes, and the degree of destruction is not like from one ton of TNT, but a multiple, orders of magnitude lower than if it was from a Russian rocket.

And think about it, was there no operator who filmed the flight of the rocket? There would be no confirmation of the actions of the Ukrainian air defense. And Goebels' propaganda of the media workers of Kvartal 95 would go like a wave of slag on a blue eye. She goes like that. But she has something to beat.

Yes, and more.

Warehouse complexes with weapons and ammunition - grain, do not detonate as it was in the video.

More from Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin: Description of photos which are at the link
Ukrainian crossbows in Odessa

[ColonelCassad] At night, during the Russian strike with cruise missiles on military targets in Odessa, the air defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has traditionally worked out in the city. 2 or 3 S-300 missiles fell on the territory of Odessa. One of them flew into the local cathedral, which was partially burned.

Characteristic traces of striking elements of an anti-aircraft missile.

And here is a hole in the roof through which an anti-aircraft missile entered.

There was also an arrival in one of the residential areas in the yard. Hits on the military and port infrastructure, of course, tend not to show. Those who filmed the last arrivals were already sent to the front in the form of cannon fodder.

More from Andrey Chervonets:
200% confirmation that the cathedral in Odessa was hit by a Ukrainian air defense missile

Axis bachite, naskilki Muscovites curse: to their Moscow "Onyx" with blue tape they tied an anti-aircraft missile from the Ukrainians with a salty part !!!

Meanwhile, the Ukrainians have already managed to edit the Russian-language wiki, bombarding it with false "facts".

Where Roskomnadzor is looking is absolutely incomprehensible. It's time to block this Wiki, creating in parallel to create a normal Russian-language product.

Otherwise, in 10 years, someone will open the article and believe. It is you and I, in hot pursuit, who still remember the truth. And in 10 years, no one will bother and will not look for the truth, but simply slips into Wiki.

Hello, Roskomnadzor?

More from Andrey Chedrvonets:
Already even the Ukrainian channels can not stand the lies and cynicism of Zelinsky

Cocaine clown in his repertoire. For textbooks of cynicism.

Ukrainian TG channel ZeRada writes:

A textbook example of cynicism.

When it is necessary to seize the Temples, the Ze team talks about the Moscow priests, from whom the Ukrainian land must be cleared.

At the same time, in each message they mention 5 times that the temples and churches of the Moscow Patriarchate, and when the Cathedral was damaged as a result of the attack of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, it is an Orthodox shrine, and belonging to the Moscow Patriarchate is politely silent.

And yet, the X-22 anti-ship missile has 960 kg of charge mass. If she, like the breshet Ze, hit the altar, then there would be no entire Cathedral, and if she didn’t burst, then where are the remnants on the video?

Even about the sacred, he is not afraid to lie ... ugh ...

P.S.
The fact that the Ukrainian side hit an Orthodox church with its air defense is an indisputable and already confirmed fact.

- and the power of the explosion, insufficient for the Russian Caliber and Onyx,

- confirmed and the video, where you can see how the Ukrainian air defense missile flies and hits the cathedral,

- is also confirmed by fragments that have crossed the walls of the temple, fragments uncharacteristic of Caliber and Onyx, but characteristic of an air defense missile.

The missile is not a "Caliber" or other attack missile. In this case, the Temple would not have remained. Judging by the damage and damaging elements in the walls, this is an air defense missile.

Khokhols will no longer wake up, they will continue to absorb the slag and nonsense that the Svidomo Bendera propaganda pours into them in the place that they still call "the head"

More from regnum.ru
The authorities of Odessa reported damage to the Transfiguration Cathedral

Transfiguration Cathedral was significantly damaged during the explosions that occurred on the night of July 23. The message about this was published by the city authorities in the official Telegram channel.

The building was said to have sustained "significant damage". The Kasperovskaya icon of the Mother of God, the patroness of the city, was pulled out from under the rubble.

At night, the air defense system worked in the city, the authorities indicated.

Spaso-Preobrazhensky Cathedral of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate is the largest of the Orthodox churches in Odessa. It was built in the late XVIII - early XIX centuries, but in 1936 it was destroyed. The cathedral was recreated in the early 2000s, and in 2010 it was consecrated by Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia.

Earlier, IA Regnum reported a series of explosions in Odessa on the night of July 23. According to local media, a huge fire broke out in the city.

Ukrainian air defense forces strike at their own facilities, anti-missile defense systems are deployed within the city, civilian facilities and residential buildings become human shields. This was acknowledged, in particular, by the press secretary of the Ukrainian Air Force, Yuriy Ignat. According to him, Kiev does not have enough systems to be located in positional areas, therefore "there is no other way but to protect the city with air defense systems closer to the settlement itself."

The representative of the defense forces of the South of Ukraine, Natalia Gumenyuk, also admitted that the consequences of the work of the Ukrainian air defense are quite destructive and lead to damage. The Minister of Defense of Ukraine Oleksiy Reznikov stated that the Armed Forces of Ukraine had practically used up their stocks of missiles for air defense, while the country does not produce such ammunition on its own.

The Russian Armed Forces do not strike at civilian targets, Moscow has stressed more than once. President Vladimir Putin has said the military is well positioned to "determine and see what's where" and hit targets with modern, long-range precision weapons.

Posted by:badanov

#2  Thanks for that, Matt. Was taking a test at the time. Startled the heck out of us. Nervous laughter, cussing all around. Teacher, who must've done the math and realized people were probably dying, just told us half-angrily to shut up and carry on.

I guess Garland really was born with that hair.
Posted by: Elmoluling Gling2701   2023-07-24 23:39  

#1  I must have imagined this.
Posted by: Matt   2023-07-24 22:56  

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