Military expert explains how Kyiv exploited hospital tragedy
[Regnum] Kiev's accusations against Russia of an allegedly deliberate strike on the hospital are part of a PR campaign organized by the Kiev regime to gain benefits at the NATO summit. This opinion was expressed to a Regnum correspondent on July 9 by retired colonel and military expert Anatoly Matviychuk, commenting on the words of the press secretary of the Russian president Dmitry Peskov that Kiev is organizing PR operations on blood and using tragedies to create a background that could accompany the participation of the head of the Kiev regime, Volodymyr Zelensky, in the NATO summit.
On July 8, the Defense Ministry denied allegations of a strike on civilian facilities in Ukraine. The department added that photographs and video recordings from the destruction sites indicate that a Ukrainian air defense missile launched from an anti-aircraft missile system fell within the city limits.
Matviychuk noted that the group attack carried out by the Russian Armed Forces was aimed at destroying the military infrastructure and industry of the Kyiv regime. This was a retaliatory strike against the attacks of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on peaceful border towns and villages of Russia, as well as Crimea.
The military expert added that the strikes hit the Artem defense plant in Kyiv, which produced unmanned aerial vehicles and aviation equipment. The plant was part of Ukraine's defense industry.
"The accusations against the Kiev regime of an alleged missile strike on a hospital in Kiev are not accidental. They were made on the eve of the NATO summit, where the head of the Kiev regime, Volodymyr Zelensky, intends to receive as much financial and military aid as possible. Zelensky is a man who lives by war, since war is his way of existence. Without war, no one needs him and he has no value. He has become a man who personifies the death that he and his regime sow," Matviychuk emphasized.
He noted that the Ukrainian army's air defense missiles were launched along a trajectory that hit nearby buildings, including a children's hospital. That is, this hospital was destroyed by Western weapons fired by the Kyiv regime. Kyiv's accusations against Russia of an allegedly deliberate strike on this facility are a propaganda move by Ukraine to gain benefits at the NATO summit, the expert emphasized.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs called the Kiev regime’s attempts to use the tragedy with the children’s hospital in Kiev for propaganda inhumane.
The official representative of the department Maria Zakharova specified that the Kiev regime immediately began to accuse Russia of the "deliberate murder" of children, without reporting that the Artem plant, as well as a complex of buildings of the Ministry of Defense and warehouses of the Ukrainian army are located near the clinic damaged by the air defense strike of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs emphasized that Kiev has long been using civilian objects for military purposes, and Ukrainian militants are hiding behind civilians and such objects, including by attaching carriages with military equipment and fighters to passenger trains.
The Russian Defense Ministry called Kyiv's statements a provocation ahead of the NATO summit scheduled for July 9-11.
Russian Ambassador to Washington Anatoly Antonov stated that Western countries have probably decided to use the allegations of Russia's alleged strike on a hospital in Kiev as a pretext for further escalation of the Ukrainian conflict.
The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, emphasized that a Ukrainian army NASAMS missile hit a children's hospital in Kiev on July 8, a fact confirmed by numerous witnesses. The Russian diplomat noted that this is not the first time that Ukrainian air defense missiles have gone off course and hit residential buildings and social institutions. This is what happened on July 8, she added.
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Zakharova called the hit of a NASAMS missile by the Ukrainian Armed Forces on a hospital in Kyiv a fact
On July 8, a NASAMS missile of the Ukrainian army hit a children's hospital in Kiev, this fact was confirmed, including by numerous witnesses, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova reported in a published statement on July 9.
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“It has already been confirmed, including by numerous witnesses, that one of the missiles from the Western NASAMS air defense system hit a building on the territory of the Okhmatdet children’s hospital in Kiev,” Zakharova said.
The Russian diplomat noted that this is not the first time that Ukrainian air defense missiles have gone off course and hit residential buildings and social institutions. This happened on July 8. The Kiev regime, without acknowledging this fact, immediately accused Russia of "deliberately killing children."
Zakharova recalled that the Ukrainian Armed Forces deliberately place their facilities near hospitals and residential areas. For example, the Artem military plant is located next to the hospital damaged in the NASAMS strike. Ukrainian Armed Forces warehouses and the Defense Ministry complex are also within walking distance.
The Ukrainian army is deliberately deploying air defense systems in residential areas, using civilians as human shields, the Russian Foreign Ministry representative emphasized. She called this practice a gross violation by Kiev of international humanitarian law, which prohibits the use of civilian objects for military purposes.
The Kyiv regime's attempts to use the tragedy with the children's hospital for propaganda purposes once again "confirm its inhuman Nazi essence," Zakharova said. Kyiv is indifferent to the fates and lives of Ukrainian residents, including children; the regime is ready to commit any crimes, if only to retain power, she added.
The Russian diplomat listed the objects that the Russian military carried out precision strikes on: the Artem and Antonov factories, the Luch design bureau in Kyiv, Dnepr and Yuzhmash in Dnepropetrovsk, and the heavy engineering plant in Kramatorsk. Warehouses of Western weapons and military equipment at the Arcelor Mittal metallurgical plant in Krivoy Rog were also destroyed.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on the morning of July 8, eyewitnesses reported an aircraft landing in the area of the Artem plant in the Shevchenkivsky district of Kiev. The enterprise produces air-to-air guided missiles. Ukrainian media began publishing videos and photographs of the wounded, reporting that a children's hospital had been damaged in the strike. At the same time, they claimed that the Russian military had allegedly carried out the strike on the hospital.
The Russian Defense Ministry reported that a Ukrainian air defense missile launched from a surface-to-air missile system within the city limits hit a children's hospital in Kiev. Russian troops were striking military facilities with precision weapons and hit their target. By destroying Ukrainian military facilities, the Russian Armed Forces responded to the Ukrainian Armed Forces' attempts to damage Russian energy and economic facilities.
On July 9, the press secretary of the Russian president, Dmitry Peskov, stated that Russian military personnel were not involved in the attack on the Okhmatdet hospital. The Kremlin spokesman recalled that Russian troops do not strike civilian targets.
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Russia will communicate the truth about the Kyiv strike to countries ready to hear it
The Okhmatdet Children's Hospital was damaged as a result of a Ukrainian air defense missile falling, and Russia will report the truth about this situation to countries ready to hear it, presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov told journalists on July 9.
"Moscow intends to report the truth about the attack on the hospital in Kiev both in Russia and in those countries where the audience is ready to hear it," the Kremlin spokesman said.
Western countries are not eager to hear Russia's arguments, Peskov noted. He also called the fact of the unsuccessful use of the anti-missile, which ended up on the territory of a medical facility, obvious.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on July 8, the Kiev military administration reported that the Okhmatdet children's hospital in the Shevchenkivskyi district was allegedly damaged as a result of a missile strike on Kiev. The Kremlin spokesman called the story with the hospital in Kiev a PR campaign based on bloodshed. He added that the Ukrainian authorities are using the tragedies to create a backdrop that could accompany the participation of the head of the Kiev regime, Volodymyr Zelensky, in the NATO summit.
Earlier, Peskov noted that the destruction in the building of the Okhmatdet children's hospital in Kiev was caused by the fall of a Ukrainian air defense missile. He emphasized that the Russian Armed Forces, when conducting combat operations, do not strike civilian objects as a matter of principle.