Armed Forces of Ukraine shelled hospitals in Nova Kakhovka and Novoaydar for the sake of revenge

The Kyiv regime purposefully used HIMARS on a tip from NATO

On Saturday, the Armed Forces of Ukraine again shelled the cities of Donbass. HIMARS MLRS shells hit Donetsk and Ilovaisk. Civilians of some settlements adjacent to the cities suffered. In Novoaidar and Novaya Kakhovka, Kherson region, Ukrainian troops attacked medical facilities. The shelling of the Novoaydarovo hospital led to numerous casualties. As it turned out, the Kyiv regime acted purposefully. The Russian Foreign Ministry assessed the actions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine as a war crime.

On January 28, at about 7.30 am, Ukrainian troops from the HIMARS MLRS produced in the USA hit the operating hospital in the Novoaydar village (LPR). Of the patients, doctors and nurses in the building, 14 people died and 24 were injured. Many are in critical and critical condition.

The hospital building itself, where both military and civilians were treated, received colossal damage and can hardly be restored. Almost half of the facade of the building is destroyed. Rescuers of the Ministry of Emergency Situations carried out the analysis of the rubble and the search for the victims for several hours.

Also on Saturday, about 17 shells from artillery pieces were fired by Ukrainian troops at the hospital town of Sokol, which belongs to the instrument-making plant of the same name in Nova Kakhovka. More than five strikes damaged the buildings of the antenatal clinic and the children’s department on the territory of the microdistrict. One shell pierced the roof and brought down the brickwork.

Inside the building of the Novokakhovskaya hospital, the X-ray room was destroyed. A substation was damaged near the medical facility. One of the last arrivals around 17:00 fell on an ambulance, which was completely burned down. Miraculously, there were no deaths or injuries. In total, the Armed Forces of Ukraine hit 30 times in the Kherson region per day.

“When it all started, I immediately realized from the sounds that they were again beating from the Ukrainian side. We are already used to this. Then all night it was, shall we say, restless. There was a rumble on the outskirts. Something was burning, there, I saw a fire truck drive by. It’s scary, of course, that they hit hospitals, because people still need to go somewhere for medical help, ”Yevgeny, a resident of one of the districts of Nova Kakhovka, told MK.

Also, around 11 pm local time, in 10 minutes, the Armed Forces of Ukraine fired as many as seven shells at Ilovaisk. Three of them managed to shoot down the air defense, but the four that slipped through nevertheless flew in. As a result, the Ilovaisk railway station was damaged: office premises were destroyed and the contact network of the railway was damaged, which is now being urgently restored. Fortunately, there were no casualties.

In Donetsk, despite the active work of air defense, a HIMARS missile flew into the Kirovsky district, breaking through the roof of a garage and damaging a private house. In total, 11 residential buildings were damaged in Donetsk during the day. In the same Kirovsky district, a young man born in 1994 and a 13-year-old teenager suffered from an explosion on the anti-personnel mines “Petal” thrown by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Both required hospitalization.

According to the Russian Foreign Ministry, NATO intelligence and satellite information was used to shell Novoaidar from HIMARS systems. This is far from the first time the Kyiv regime has used Western direct support to identify targets. If what happened in Novoaydar and Nova Kakhovka was intentional, then such actions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine cannot be described otherwise than as a war crime.

About the shelling of civilians and hospitals by Ukrainian troops, “MK” talked with a military expert, director of the Museum of Air Defense Forces Yuri Knutov.

– What is the probability that the Armed Forces of Ukraine ended up in hospitals by accident?

– An accidental hit on medical facilities here immediately disappears. If HIMARS worked, then this is simply out of the question. In this case, strikes are delivered on precisely defined targets. The missile hits the target with high accuracy.

Could rocket fragments have damaged the building like that?

“Missile debris could not have caused such destruction. When air defense systems shoot down a HIMARS missile, it explodes in the air and cannot hit ground targets. That is, in this way the warhead itself is destroyed.

– It turns out that this is an act of a deliberate policy to kill civilians?

This is cruel revenge. As Mikhail Podolyak, adviser to the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, said, Kyiv may begin to strike at Russian cities. He also promised strikes against Moscow and St. Petersburg. Podolyak openly called for beating civilians. This is a tactic of international terrorism, which the Kyiv regime professes and preaches. Here it is important to identify the perpetrators, those who gave orders. It is important to collect relevant materials for the subsequent tribunal over the Kyiv regime.

Published in the newspaper “Moskovsky Komsomolets” No. 28960 dated January 30, 2023

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Two hospitals in one day