Posted on 04/09/2022 10:26:59 AM PDT by Navy Patriot
At least 30 people were killed and around 100 other civilians were wounded after a Tochka-U missile hit the railway station in Kiev-controlled Kramatorsk on Friday. The Ukrainian side claimed that Russian troops were complicit in the missile strike. However, Tochka-U tactical missile systems are not operational either in Russia or in the Donbass republics.
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Fragments of a Tochka-U tactical missile were found at the scene.
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Tochka-U tactical missile systems are actively used by the Ukrainian armed forces but are not operational in Russia or the Donbass republics. The Russian Defense Ministry highlighted that the photos from the Russia-Belarus Union Resolve 2022 military exercises being spread by Kiev show the hardware that does not belong to Russia.
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On March 14, a similar Tochka-U missile hit the center of Donetsk, killing 17 and wounding 36 other civilians.
(Excerpt) Read more at tass.com ...
So says TASS. Must be true. /sarc
“Tochka-U tactical missile systems are actively used by the Ukrainian armed forces but are not operational in Russia or the Donbass republics.”
False. The old Tochka missiles were re-activated and deployed by Russian forces specifically for the Ukraine invasion. Russian propaganda.
Is there a source of this info?
The standard stream of Russian disinfo:
1) The attack didn’t happen!
2) Okay it did happen but it wasn’t us!
3) Okay it was us, but it was a valid military target!
4) Okay it was all civilians, but those civilians were Nazies!
In this case they have retreated to 2. Soon 3 will show up as the Russians boasted about suing these rockets only a few weeks ago:
https://twitter.com/Schroeding/status/1512412311016943626
Thought the count was up to 58.
“Is there a source of this info?”
How about the Russian Defense Ministry:
https://twitter.com/Schroeding/status/1512412311016943626
One source I found:
https://www.reddit.com/r/RussiaUkraineWar2022/comments/tdjwbn/an_intercepted_ballistic_missile_tochkau_of_the/
The most Tass can confirm is 39.
Serial number of Tochka missile is 91579.
There are four more missiles from the same series, all used by a Ukranian unit, 91565 and 91566 were used against Donbass in 2015, and 915611 and 915516 against Berdyansk and Melitopol recently.
Why on earth would the Ukrainians bomb their own battlefield railhead in a combat situation? Putinism is clearly a mental illness.
False flag operation by Kiev designed to murder civilians.
One of many.
The Nazi way.

...24 hours a day, seven days a week, 100% of the time...
;>)
Russian sources, to me, are unbelievable.
The old Tochka missiles were re-activated and deployed by Russian forces specifically for the Ukraine invasion.
Is there a source of this info?
“Belarusian Hajun project
@MotolkoHelp
7:50
A column of Russian equipment with āVā marks was moving from Rechitsa towards Gomel along the M10 highway.
There were at least 8 Tochka-U, several BTR-82a, about 9 KamAZ trucks, some of which are carrying Tochka-U missiles, communication vehicle and a crane.”
There's lots of obvious propaganda from the Ukraine side of things, also - to the point that I don't believe sources in Ukraine, either...
;>)
thanks. I was skeptical of the propaganda it was a Ukraine missile.
Yeah, I just sit back with the folks and a bag of popcorn and watch the pseudo evening news.
Putin started this war, he is to blame for ALL the resulting death and destruction.
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