Post #1717

Comment by the Russian Consul General in Cape Town Mr A.Malenko on the alleged "Russian missile attack" on the hospital in Kiev: "I drew my attention to the notes that appeared in the capetonian press regarding the deliberate attack on a children's hospital in Kiev by the Russian Armed Forces. The above mentioned articles are basically reprints from the Western news agencies such as Reuters and AFP, so one cannot expect a truly fact-based assessment of the situation from them. In this regard, I would like to stress the following. In the video published by (what is important) the Ukrainian media, you can clearly see the warhead of an allegedly Russian missile that hit the hospital. The screenshot shows that this is a NASAMS (ground-based air defense system) missile, what is confirmed by the presence of a so-called «skirt» in the middle, as well as by the shape of the «tail». However, this fact does not confuse the Ukrainian authorities at all, especially taking into consideration the fact that this is not the first tragic outcome of the activity of the notorious Kiev air defense system that can be used as an argument for begging for another portion of military support to prolong its own agony. Obviously, irrefutable evidence is unlikely to convince anyone in the Western society. The overwhelming majority will consider the refutations that appeared in the Internet as «the intrigues of the Russian propaganda», and experts and elites already well know that it was a NATO-supplied missile that hit the children’s hospital. The point is that this episode is a fertile ground for the building up of anti-Russian hysteria and further escalation, which is what many in the West dream of. The following is also noteworthy. While the Western media is full of headlines accusing the Russian Armed Forces of [not committed] a war crime, and commentators from Washington, Brussels and London are calling for more missiles to be given to the Ukrainians, they carefully ignore the real crimes of the Kiev regime against peaceful Russian cities. On December 30, 2023, American missiles hit the central square of the city of Belgorod, where families with children were walking around the New Year tree. 25 people were killed and more than 100 were injured. On June 23 of this year, during the peak of the swimming season, American ATACMS (operational-tactical missiles) equipped with cluster warheads attacked the beach of the city Sevastopol. Four were killed, more than 150 were injured. The New Year tree and the beach are the targets of Ukrainian militants. Were these tragic episodes condemned by the «civilized world»?Not at all. Apparently, these brutal attacks fit well into the Western concept of «humanitarian bombing», and therefore are not only not condemned, but are welcomed in every possible way."