Washington, June 24, 2024, 21:59 - IA Regnum. Acting US Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs John Bass, commenting on the Ukrainian Armed Forces strike on Sevastopol, said that Washington regrets civilian casualties in any conflicts.“The United States always regrets the loss of civilian lives in conflict,” he responded during an online briefing when asked to comment on the situation.
According to him, Ukraine allegedly “disciplinedly” uses military means provided by the West.
As IA Regnum previously reported, US Ambassador to Moscow Lynn Tracy was summoned to the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs after a Ukrainian Armed Forces missile strike on Sevastopol, which killed civilians. She made a demarche in connection with the new bloody crime of the Kyiv regime sponsored and armed by Washington. The American ambassador was told that the United States was waging a hybrid war against Russia and had turned to the side of the Ukrainian conflict.
On the afternoon of June 23, Ukrainian troops fired five US-made ATACMS operational-tactical missiles with cluster warheads at Sevastopol. The Ministry of Defense noted that air defense forces intercepted four missiles, but the explosion of the fragmentation warhead of the fifth ATACMS missile in the air led to casualties among civilians in Sevastopol.
The defense department clarified that the United States is responsible for this attack, since it transferred these missiles to the Ukrainian authorities, and flight missions into ATACMS are entered by American specialists based on the United States’ own satellite intelligence data.
Press Secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov called the attack of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on Sevastopol barbaric, which resulted in the death of civilians, including children. He noted that some conclusions in response to the question of whether the missile attack in Crimea and the terrorist attacks in Dagestan are events of the same series can be drawn after the investigation is completed.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stressed that Washington's involvement is beyond doubt. The Foreign Minister said that even if American weapons are supplied to Kyiv, they are not allowed to be used without the participation of US military personnel.
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Washington, June 24, 2024, 23:45 - IA Regnum. Ukraine supposedly makes its own decisions about choosing targets for strikes, including with the use of American weapons, US Department of Defense spokesman Charlie Dietz said on June 24.
“Ukraine makes its own decisions about the choice of targets and conducts its own military operations,” Reuters quoted him as saying.
The agency noted that as part of the conflict in Ukraine, in which Western countries, including the United States of America, are directly and indirectly involved, the largest confrontation between Russia and the West since the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 took place.
On June 23, the Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked Sevastopol, using five American ATACMS operational-tactical missiles with a cluster warhead. The Russian Ministry of Defense reported that air defense intercepted four missiles, but the fragmentation warhead of the fifth ATACMS missile exploded in the air, which led to civilian casualties. As a result of aggression by the Ukrainian Armed Forces, four people were killed, 153 civilians were injured, 79 of them, including 27 children, were hospitalized.
As Regnum reported, the Ministry of Defense emphasized that the United States was also responsible for the attack on Sevastopol, since American specialists enter flight missions into ATACMS based on their own satellite data. The head of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Sergei Lavrov, also made allegations of Washington's involvement. He recalled that the United States, when supplying weapons to Kyiv, does not allow their use without the participation of American specialists.
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Political scientist Denisov linked the silence of Western media with the information war against the Russian Federation
Moscow, June 24, 2024, 16:57 - IA Regnum. The Western media’s ignorance of the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ attack on Sevastopol, which killed civilians, is associated with the information war of the collective Western countries against Russia. This opinion was expressed to a Regnum news agency correspondent on June 24 by Denis Denisov, a political scientist, director of the Institute of Peacemaking Initiatives and Conflictology, and an expert at the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation.
Political scientist Denisov linked the silence of Western media with the information war against the Russian Federation
According to him, this is not a new situation and it is typical for a number of events that are of great importance for Russia, but do not receive coverage in the Western media. This is a characteristic of that “freedom of speech” that people in the collective Western countries love to talk about, the expert clarified.
For example, earlier in the West there was very little coverage of Ukrainian shelling of civilians in Donbass. Also, the Western media decided to suppress information about the torture of people in Mariupol by Ukrainian nationalists, because in their paradigm this cannot happen, Denisov explained.
“All this can be considered exclusively in the context of the information war of the collective Western countries against Russia. The censorship that exists in the United States and some other European countries is much stricter than in countries that are considered countries with limited freedom of speech. The only way to counter this is with the truth. It is necessary to convey truthful information to Western audiences, overcoming all restrictions and prohibitions,” the political scientist noted.
As reported by IA Regnum, earlier the American journalist Julia Kanin wrote on the social network X that the Western media were silent after the attack of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on Sevastopol.
On the afternoon of June 23, Ukrainian troops fired five US-made ATACMS operational-tactical missiles with cluster warheads at Sevastopol. Air defense forces intercepted four missiles, but the detonation of the fragmentation warhead of the fifth American missile in the air led to numerous casualties among civilians in Sevastopol.
The Russian Ministry of Defense emphasized that the United States, which supplied the Kyiv regime with missiles, bears responsibility for the attack. At the same time, flight missions in ATACMS are entered by American specialists based on their own satellite reconnaissance data, the Ministry of Defense added.
Director of the Sevastopol Health Department Vitaly Denisov said that the number of victims of the Ukrainian Armed Forces missile attack in Sevastopol has increased to 153. Denisov added that at the moment 79 victims of the Ukrainian Armed Forces attack have been hospitalized, this number includes 27 children.
Earlier, the governor of Sevastopol, Mikhail Razvozhaev, said that three of the four killed as a result of the Ukrainian army’s attack on the city were local residents and another arrived from another region of Russia.
On June 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed deep condolences to the relatives of those killed on June 23 in Sevastopol.
According to the press secretary of the head of state, Dmitry Peskov, the Russian leader is in constant contact with the security bloc, with doctors and gives them all the necessary instructions.
Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova called the attack by Ukrainian troops on Sevastopol a ritual crime. She noted that it was no coincidence that Kyiv chose the holiday of the Orthodox Trinity for this.