Posted on 10/09/2022 11:47:40 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has said that Russia's latest attack on civilian targets in the southern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhya that killed 14 people and left scores wounded, including children, was an act of "terrorism at state level," which proved that it is impossible to negotiate with Russia.
"The constant terrorism against the civilian population is Russia's obvious rejection of real negotiations," Zelenskiy said in a video message late on October 9. "Terrorism at the state level is one of the worst international crimes."
Ukrainian officials in Zaporizhzhya said that nine rockets fired by Russian forces overnight on October 8-9 killed 14 people in two apartment buildings and dozens of private homes and wounded 70, including 11 children. Russian Missiles Bring Death And Destruction To Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya
Fresh Russian shelling of Zaporizhzhya destroyed an apartment building the following night, causing injuries, regional Governor Oleksandr Starukh said early on October 10.
The nearby Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant is located southwest of the city in territory Moscow seized early in the war.
"It was a deliberate blow. The one who gave the order and those who carried it out knew where to hit," Zelenskiy said in his video message.
Zelenskiy's statement came shortly after Russian President Vladimir Putin himself blamed Ukrainian intelligence for the recent attack on the 18-kilometer bridge linking Moscow-annexed Crimea with mainland Russia, calling it an "act of terrorism." Live Briefing: Russia's Invasion Of Ukraine
Putin and the head of Russia’s Investigative Committee have blamed, without evidence, the attack on the $3.6-billion bridge over the Kerch Strait on Ukrainian special forces.
Russian forces also shelled the southern Ukrainian city of Mykolayiv overnight, launching 10 S-300 missiles, said the head of Mykolayiv's regional military administration, Vitaly Kim. .
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Yeah...well... how can Ukranians claim higher moral ground when Ukranian death squads are killing russian simpathizers in liberated towns? That should stop.
Other than that, I support Ukranians getting their territory back
S-300 is an anti-aircraft weapon...
I saw the video of the bridge getting hit, and there were vehicles going across it. They didn’t look like military vehicles. So that looks like an attack on civilians as well.
There is no good guy in this fight. Both sides are corrupt.
The US is vastly corrupt. Probably the most corrupt country on Earth, in absolute terms.
Would you like it when some country, citing that as an excuse, decides to bombard you?
Ukraine is less corrupt than Russia under Putin or America under Biden. But that is not why they are the good guy. Russia broke the peace and invaded in 2014 and the all-out invasion in February. Ukraine is fighting with the Spirit of ‘76. Death to the invaders! Glory to Ukraine !!!
You really are a human rights expert.
Hopium.
In town after village after town after village, Ukraine’s advance has exposed the placards saying “Russian forever” and now the Hammer and Sickle flags in those areas are trambled and the bi-color is raised. It is not “Hopium”. It is reality. Death to the invaders !!! Death to Russian trolls !!!
You have gone mental. You right like a deranged, bloodthirsty psychopath.
“...deranged, bloodthirsty psychopath...”
Flattery will get you nowhere. In truth, I have lots of knowledge of the full scope of Russian crimes in the Donbas. anyone would be plenty ticked off.
The gloves are off. Zelenksy should ignore Nuland’s advice and negotiate before Kiev gets Dresdened. This is no longer a T.V soundbite war for him
It’s war. You blow up their stuff, they’re likely to blow up yours. Enough of this posturing by Zelensky.
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Russia strike on flats kills 12 in Ukraine after Crimea bridge attack
Yup.
Zelemsky is busy replacing ISIS as the world's biggest terrorist leader, even while posturing at the same time.
Hitting the Crimea bridge was a strategic mistake by the Ukrainians. It looked good on T.V but that doesn’t win a war. Russia has seized upon it to go after Ukrainian infrastructure that, for what ever reason, it had left alone.
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