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Posted on 09/07/2023 3:33:12 AM PDT by Timber Rattler
The Russian missile that struck Wednesday in eastern Ukraine turned an outdoor market into a fiery, blackened ruin where weeping civilians looked for loved ones among the mangled, burned bodies scattered across the ground.
The blast in the town of Kostiantynivka killed 17 people and wounded at least 32 in one of Russia’s deadliest strikes on civilians in months, Ukrainian officials said.
“There was no military target here. This is a peaceful neighborhood in the city center,” Stefan Slovak, who lives in Kostiantynivka, said in a trembling voice.
Behind him were the remnants of the market, where charred bodies could be seen in the street, their clothes still burning, near cars engulfed in flames. Behind a market stall holding fresh parsley, rescuers found a women in civilian clothes with her head covered in blood.
Video taken by The Associated Press showed a chaotic scene, with charred bodies lying on the ground, some of them still burning. As firefighters tried to douse the flames, first responders rushed to apply tourniquets and load the wounded into emergency vehicles using stretchers and blankets. Posters or tarps were used to cover some of the dead. Onlookers cried and consoled one another.
“They are shooting at peaceful civilians. Are we soldiers here? Are we shooting at them? No! So why? They are just trying to destroy Ukrainian nation,” said resident Nadezhda Negoda.
(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...
Thanks for the timely update silverleaf. You sure harshed the zeep. Appreciated.
Uh, no.
You made the charge. Back it up, Bucko.
🤡
bad part it will be back under a new name, but ZOTs smell so good in the morning.
Sure thing, n00b. Just means you can’t back up your talk, n00b.
Go back to DU.
Hush Neocon 🤡 and take Zelenskyy with you!
The hate for fieldmarshaldj was so thick. The dude was probably pounding out another one and when he hit enter he just vanished...still laughing.
There's also notwithstanding the fact that, as seen in the longer video clip Roepcke posted, you had people looking up in the sky towards *something* shortly before the explosion happened.
(Plus, Kostyantynivka is in Donetsk Oblast. I guess the Russians shot an explosive into their own territory again.)
I was being polite to it earlier with a friendly hello.
He rather rudely said Bye and fled to another thread for a bit.
Then he came back and said we were all so tiring to deal with.
So I asked him that if we’re so tiring, why does he keep returning.
He never responded.
Then he exploded.
I don’t know why.
Was it something I said?
Nice, plenty of other Neocon Cheerleaders to deal with next!
I’m just coincidentally nearby, usually.
Ukraine still occupies part of the Donetsk oblast
The reports are not “ mine”, just passing along what analysts ( many) are reconstructing. There is plenty of evidence to work with. Sound, visual ( the image of the incoming missile and its direction of flight as captured on several cars, the after effect of the damage, a surface blast with shrapnel, the history of Uke deployment of likely weapon system at the base where the launch sound originated) …plus anecdotal reports the people heard aircraft active in the area, but there were no air defense alerts)
Last most logical explanation I read, was accidental launch by Ukes of HARM AGM that went rogue and homed in on wi fi signal in the market impact area.
Be careful of the videos. Some were edited after the incident to eliminate the noise of the launch, which is what drew the spectators to look in the direction of the Ukrainian base, and occurred approx 2 seconds before impact.
The spectators looked in the direction of a launch sound, not an incoming missile. The missile flew over and impacted about 2 seconds after the sound of the launch. AP ( AssPress) released edited videos deleting both the sound of the launch and the reflection of the incoming missile. That alone should tell you something.
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