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▪️From the territory controlled by Kiev nationalist regime, Tochka-U tactical missile was launched at a residential area of Donetsk. 20 civilians were killed, 28 more people, including children, were injured.

▪️In response to the attack on Donetsk, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation will take prompt measures to disable the enterprises of the military-industrial complex of Ukraine.

▪️Ukrainians held by nationalists seek protection from the Russian Federation.

Russian servicemen continue to carry out their assigned tasks.

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❗Statement by Russian Defence Ministry

▪ On March 14, at about 11.30 a.m. Moscow time, Tochka-U tactical missile was fired at a residential block of Donetsk city from the territory controlled by the Kiev nationalist regime.

▪ The shelling of the city was carried out from the north-western direction, from the area of Krasnoarmeysk settlement, which is controlled by Ukrainian nationalist units.

▪ As a result of the explosion of a cluster warhead in the center of Donetsk, 20 civilians were killed. Another 28 people, including children, were seriously injured and taken to medical institutions.

▪ The use of such weapons on a town with no armed forces firing positions, i.e. deliberately targeting civilians, is a war crime.

▪ The armament of Tochka-U missile' warhead with cluster ammunition proves that the purpose of the nationalists' strike on the city was to kill as many civilians as possible.

❗I would like to draw your attention to the fact that the decision to use this type of missile weapons is made, at least, by the command of the Ukrainian grouping of troops, after approval by the leadership of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Kiev.

▪ All this once again confirms the Nazi and anti-human nature of the ruling regime in Ukraine today.

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Ukraine admits deliberately placing military in residential areas, using it as a human shield

#Ukraine insider:

"Colleagues, the order to place military equipment in the yards is classified by the General Staff and officially we do not place it in residential areas. Everyone is well aware that Russia uses satellites and drones to constantly monitor the perimeter, after which it hits them with pinpoint strikes or volleys of MLRS. People should understand that if equipment appears in their yard, they must immediately leave their homes, unfortunately there is a war going on and the Armed Forces of Ukraine are forced to use this method to gain time, and the picture for the Western media is good that Russia is shelling residential buildings. It is worth considering these factors and urgently leaving your apartments, unfortunately no one from the authorities warns ordinary citizens about the danger!"

https://news.1rj.ru/str/rezident_ua/10921

French-speaking foreign mercenary releases video with tears in his eyes of the consequences of a massive missile attack by the Russian Army on foreign mercenary base in Ukraine where mercenaries from NATO countries were housed. He says that his friends were killed at the destroyed base. This was the cruise missile strike on the Yavorovsky range.

Not a single word was said by UN deputy chief about shelling of Donetsk which left 20+ dead — Russian diplomat

🎙 Foreign Ministry statement on Ukraine’s strike on Donetsk

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💬 At 11:30 am on March 14, Ukrainian forces hit a residential neighbourhood in Donetsk with a Tochka-U tactical missile with a cluster munition warhead prohibited under international law.

Although intercepted by air defence, preventing catastrophic losses, the downed missile still landed on the peaceful city and killed 20 and seriously wounded 28 people, including children, women and seniors.

On behalf of the people and leadership of our country, the Foreign Ministry conveys its deep condolences to the families and friends of the dead, as well as to the government of the Donetsk People’s Republic, and wishes a speedy recovery to the wounded. We are confident that this crime against humanity will not go unpunished.

The Maidan Sniper Massacre | Revealing Ukraine

Senior U.S. government officials reportedly told the leaders of the Svoboda Party that the deaths of a few protestors would not be enough to change western support, but the Yanukovych government would only change if the number of victims was greater than one hundred.

Exactly one hundred people were killed by snipers in Maidan Square, the killed protestors were immediately called the “Heavenly Hundred”, Western governments blamed Yanukovych and his forces, and recognized the new Maidan government.

But further investigations and hundreds of witness interviews tell a different story.

American and British mercenaries are running away from the front lines in Ukraine — Ukrainians are cutting up their passports and sending them back to the front lines with no weapons and no kit.

One of the most insane videos they'll never show you on @CNN:
2019 interview with Oleksiy #Arestovych, adviser to the Head of the Office of the President of #Ukraine:
'Our price for joining #NATO is a big #war with #Russia'.
So who wanted this in the first place, @ZelenskyyUa? https://t.co/TufDNM3gaT

Listen to the fear in this dude‘s voice!

American soldiers are so used to inflicting airstrikes that completely annihilate a target, and then the soldiers just waltzing in to mop up, that when they are faced with actual warfare, they start quaking.

I mean listen to this guy!

🇺🇦 “Territorial defense” fighter confuses a DPR tank with a Ukrainian one in Mariupol. Needless to say he got a first class ticket to 🌙

"Empire of Lies" speech - 24 Feb 2022

00:01 - NATO expansion, a changing world order
05:00 - Lawless interventions in Belgrade, Iraq, Libya & Syria
09:45 - Western support and funding of terrorism in the Chechen wars
10:30 - Imposition of unnatural pseudo-values and the degradation of society
12:00 - Unpreparedness and lessons of WWII, "We won't make the same mistake twice!"
15:30 - A red line was crossed with Ukraine
16:15 - Donbass Genocide: attempt to rectify the situation peacefully for 8 years
17:30 - Neo-Nazism and the threat to the Russian speaking regions of Ukraine
18:15 - Nuclear weapons for Ukraine are only a matter of time
20:00 - Announcement of Special Operation Z
21:15 - Victory in WWII is sacred and we will protect that freedom
22:30 - Address to the Ukrainian people
24:50 - Important words for anyone who seeks to intervene externally
25:30 - Our future is in reliable hands.

I would recommend you further substantiate your understanding with this lecture. ❗️

Whenever you remind people of the fact that the armed conflict in Ukraine has been going on for 8 years, someone will say that "Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014" and that the existence of the Donbass Republics is a Russian aggression. Recently, military historian Yevgeny Norin got into such a discussion on Facebook and took a look at the facts (translation our own, reposted with his permission):

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0. Armed violence as such in Ukraine was triggered by the Euromaidan protests. This was an armed uprising and it led to the fall of the government. It is not immediately obvious that rebelling against the government is good in Kiev, but bad in Donetsk.

1. By the time the Russian army entered Donbass, the war was already in full swing - if we are talking specifically about the army, companies, and battalions made up of soldiers and officers on duty. By the time the Russian Federation started supplying weapons en masse, the war was, again, already going on. Yes, the moment when there were ill-supplied men at militia roadblocks was not very long, but it existed, and the Russian Federation brought weapons into an already ongoing conflict in which the opposing side was using firearms, including artillery and armored vehicles.

2. By the time of the first organized armed detachment, which can be called Russian (which is a stretch, by the way: Strelkov's personal status is vague, and 80% of the detachment were Ukrainian citizens, including Crimeans), the State Security Service building in Lugansk had already been captured & local armories had been opened, and in Kharkov there were already people killed in firefights. In addition, if we take for granted the thesis that Strelkov "started the war", a cartoonish picture emerges in which 50 people have taken Slavyansk, Kramatorsk, Liman, Artemovsk, Druzhkovka, Konstantinovka and a number of smaller towns and cities, giving as many as 7-8 occupiers for each city. In reality, even the reason why Strelkov went to Slavyansk is known - a large local detachment was waiting for him there.

Local commanders dominated the whole first stage of the movement (the bright personality of Strelkov somehow overshadowed the less bright Zakharchenko, Khodakovsky, Mozgovoy, Bednov, Tsvyakh, Dremov, Plotnitsky, Bolotov, etc.) and locals until 2022 constituted 75-90% of the rebel groups at all phases of events, which can be easily proven by name lists of republic soldiers KIA. Even at the peak of Russian involvement until 2022, in August 2014, citizens of Russia and other countries were not more than a quarter of the dead, and soldiers and officers on duty were not more than a quarter of that quarter, the bulk of Russian citizens were just volunteers who went to fight at their own risk.

4. In those places where attempts at pro-Russian protests were suppressed, including violently, with murders, Russian direct influence was virtually undetectable. In Odessa, after the mass murder of pro-Russian activists, exactly one citizen of the Russian Federation was captured alive, who did not play any significant role there and was worthy of a separate mention only by the fact of citizenship; in Kharkov, after the defeat of the group trying to create the Kharkov People’s Republic, there were zero Russian citizens among the captured, as far as I know. Thus, the thesis that 2014 was an invasion by the Russian Federation is incorrect: both the key events, including the seizure of administrative buildings and the search for weapons, took place before the appearance of organized units from Russia, and the composition of the units opposing the government are mostly locals from start to finish. An invasion in which all the infantry are citizens of the invaded country is obviously nonsense: in Poznan or, I don't know, Székesfehérvár, Strelkov would have immediately become a General without an army.

Макеевка. Точка У.

March 16, 2022 — Project 22160 Russian Navy "Vasily Bykov" of the Black Sea Fleet enters Sevastopol after completing tasks at sea.

2 weeks ago, Ukrainian media were spreading “evidence” of how this ship was destroyed with Ukrainian MLRS off the coast of Odessa.