Strike on Okhmatdyt: Russians call it a "response" to attacks on energy facilities in Russia

Strike on Okhmatdyt: Russians call it a "response" to attacks on energy facilities in Russia

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Russia's latest massive missile attack on Ukraine was called a response to Ukraine's strike on energy facilities in Russia. At the same time, Moscow denies striking civilians and accuses Ukraine of provocations.

The morning massive strike on Ukraine is allegedly Russia's response to Ukraine's strikes on Russian energy and economic facilities. This was stated by the Russian Ministry of Defense, UNN reports.

Details

In the morning, in response to the Kyiv regime's attempts to damage Russian energy and economic facilities, the Russian Armed Forces launched a group strike with long-range precision weapons against Ukrainian military industry facilities and air bases of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

- the Russians said in a statement. 

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Moscow emphasizes that the target of the strike was allegedly achieved and that all the designated targets were hit. 

Nevertheless, the Russians deny a deliberate missile strike on civilian objects. They assure that all the footage released from Kyiv is allegedly the result of a Ukrainian air defense missile falling. 

Russian propagandists also claimed that these were allegedly another provocation on the eve of the NATO summit.

Recall

As a result of the combined rocket attack by Russian troops on Ukraine, as of 12:50, 21 people were already known to have been killed and 68 injured, in particular, in the capital, the occupiers hit the Okhmatdyt children's hospital, where two people died.