Zelensk and the West claimed that this was a "Russian war crime" and that there were more than a thousand civilians there at the mall at the time. Mall set on fire after being shot.
Why didn’t the Russian military previously declare that it would not attack civilian targets when it attacked a shopping mall with missiles that had no strategic value? Various questions came one after another
The Ukrainian command quickly released news that the missiles were allegedly several Kh-22 missiles launched by Russian Tu-22M3 bombers Shaikov from the Kaluga region. Card airport takes off. In addition, according to the Russian Air Force, the missile launch itself was carried out over the Kursk region. These data, if they correspond to the facts, are 100 percent informed by Americans, because the US military's early warning aircraft are hovering in Poland and Romania 24 hours a day.
Lieutenant General Igor Konashenkov, the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense , spoke about the missile attack target on the city of Kremenchuk at a briefing on June 28. He said that on June 27, in the city of Kremenchuk in the Poltava region, the Russian Aerospace Forces used high-precision space-based weapons to attack a warehouse in the Kremenchuk Highway Machinery Plant area. The weapons and ammunition inside were from the United States and European countries.
According to the Russian side, the target was destroyed and the explosion caused a fire in a shopping mall near the factory. Furthermore, he said, the mall was not open at the time of the missile attack.
Western politicians are very excited. This is another Western hype point after the so-called "Bucha massacre". The first to be excited was British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, who called the attack "a shocking and barbaric attack on innocent civilians." The Western "G7" immediately announced that it would continue to provide financial, humanitarian and military support to Ukraine as long as necessary.
But the Ukrainian media hyped it up, but the results were not good. Immediately there were glaring inconsistencies. Some experts have listed various casualty figures, but if the Kh-22 actually hit the mall, they would obviously be lower.
Kh-22 air-to-ground missile is a large-scale strategic air-to-ground missile independently developed by the Soviet Union. It is a model with relatively advanced performance and entered service in 1964. It can attack aircraft carriers and other large ships and high-value land targets at sea. The bomb weighs 6,000 kilograms, ranking second among Russian missiles, with a range of 500 kilometers.. Each Kh-22 missile carries 630 kilograms of TGAG-5 TNT explosive. According to research by the Russian Academy of Sciences, the crater where the half-ton missile exploded was at least 14 meters deep and 42 meters in diameter.
Even if just one Kh-22 missile hit the mall, there would be nothing left at all. The single-story building's metal structure will be spread over a huge area. In fact, as of 10 p.m. on June 27, only 13 deaths were reported. Judging from the reported video, there are neat shelves of goods in the soot-covered shopping mall. In particular, unbroken champagne bottles can be seen. This alone suggests that the blast wave had little impact.
Following this, the New York Times published an article that provided an important detail: "The downtown mall is located near a military factory believed to be used to repair tanks, armored vehicles of the Ukrainian Armed Forces It is being repaired there. Netizens also said that according to satellite images, if the shopping mall was hit, it would be broken like cardboard. The Russian missile actually hit the ordnance repair shop, which is 90 meters behind the shopping mall. , the most logical version is that a Russian missile hit the factory (there is a distant video of it exploding nicely), and then the fire spread to the shopping mall, which in fact was not a shopping mall, to cover the ordnance repair shop.
Dmitry, Russia’s deputy ambassador to the United Nations , believes that the explosion and fire were caused by the Ukrainians themselves. He called it a provocation by Ukraine aimed at drawing attention to the country at a NATO summit that begins in Madrid on Tuesday.
