Posted on 12/26/2023 10:03:16 AM PST by Eleutheria5
A Ukrainian attack on the Crimean port of Feodosia damaged a large Russian landing ship and killed one person, Moscow said on Tuesday after Kyiv said it had destroyed an important Russian warship.
The Russian defense ministry was cited by the Interfax news agency as saying that Ukraine had used air-launched missiles to attack Feodosia and that the ‘Novocherkassk’ large landing ship had been damaged in the raid.
The ‘Novocherkassk,’ which was built in Poland and entered service in the late 1980s, is designed for amphibious landings and can carry various types of armored vehicles, including tanks.
Footage posted on several Russian news outlets on the Telegram messaging app, purportedly from the port, showed powerful explosions detonating and fires burning.
Sergei Aksyonov, the Russian-installed governor of Crimea, said on the Telegram messaging app that one person had been killed, two injured and six people evacuated from their homes.
Although a Ukrainian counteroffensive has made little in the way of battlefield gains and the Russian military has regained the initiative in several places, Ukraine has been able to launch a series of attacks on Crimea, the headquarters of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet, inflicting serious damage.
The Ukrainian air force said its pilots had attacked Feodosia at about 2:30 a.m. local time with cruise missiles, destroying the ‘Novocherkassk.’
“And the fleet in Russia is getting smaller and smaller! Thanks to the Air Force pilots and everyone involved for the filigree work!” the commander of Ukraine’s air force, Mykola Oleshchuk, said on Telegram.
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Some of his compulsive spamming is false and some of it is true, he doesn’t care one way or the other, he can’t control his compulsions.
Pot. Kettle.
“The influencers behind the Ukrainian PR machine
Lobbyists, lawyers and public relations pros have blitzed Capitol Hill and the media to push Ukraine aid.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/03/17/influencers-ukrainian-pr-machine-00018299
Propaganda on all sides. And there are at least five other threads on FR now about this same incident. Ahem.
Yes.
or ...It's just a flesh wound..
Ha!
But, but, but. But Moscow claimed only one person was killed in the attack!
Why is Russia busy demolishing tiny villages in Ukraine? The Russians get thousands of their men killed in order to capture the rubble of what was a tiny farming village.
Destroyed as can be seen in the pictures.
Now reports of up to 87 dead on that ship.
Before Russia's 2022 invasion only a few civilians per year were injured or killed in Ukraine from actual fighting or shelling. And many of them were Ukrainians hit by shelling from Donetsk. Most were victims of unexploded ordnance.
But thanks for showing us you are just another Russian propagandist.
Now we can watch the FR's pro-Russian propaganda team do their best to cover up the loss.
Russia doesn’t scruple invading Ukraine.
Scattered throughout Feodosia are not only pieces of iron from the exploding Novocherkassk, but also pieces and scraps of bodies. Protruding bones, remains of skulls, shreds of meat.
Yes, OSCE reports do support my claim.
Casualties by year
• 486 in 2017; 238 in 2018; 148 in 2019; 74 in 2020 (1 January to 15 September)
Casualties by type of incident
• Shelling: 66 killed and 452 injured
• Small arms and light weapons: 11 killed and 96 injured
• Mines, unexploded ordnance and other explosive objects: 81 killed and 231 injured
• Other: three killed and six injured
Civilian casualties by region and control
• 750 in Donetsk region and 196 in Luhansk region
• Government-controlled areas: 223 in Donetsk region and 47 in Luhansk region
• Non-government-controlled areas: 513 in Donetsk region and 144 in Luhansk region
• Areas not controlled by either side: 14 in Donetsk region and five in Luhansk region
Casualties by sex and age
• 531 men; 315 women; and 100 children (73 boys and 27 girls)
• 72 per cent of adult civilians killed or injured by mines and unexploded ordnance (UXO) were men;
among minors, 90 per cent were boys
• More than 40 per cent of cases where men were killed or injured by mines and UXOs were due to mishandling or attempting to dismantle these objects; this amounted to 87 per cent of cases among boys
• Over 70 per cent of civilians killed or injured by mines or other explosive objects along riverbanks were
men
www.osce.org/files/f/documents/f/b/469734.pdf
I have been reading OSCE reports off and on (off times because of family illness) since 2014. Civilians have been killed on both sides. And sorry, civilians targets hit. Note the above does not include 2014-2015, when civilian casualties per year were reportedly higher than in later years.
Here’s pro-Ukraine BBC:
Ukraine crisis: Children die in Donetsk shelling
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-29912055
I suppose you think AI and HRW are “Russian propaganda” outlets? Now that’s funny!
For some reason, you want to believe Ukrainians are all pure angels and Russians are all pure devils. Well, that’s the comic book mentality that seems to have taken over.
This is so weird. I never denied the boat was hit. Maybe you have me confused with someone else?
Good to see some more movement. Bad to see ships still in Crimea. Was it “destroyed” or only “damaged”? Impossible to say without pictures.
Annihilated as per this video.
Ropucha-class Landing Ship Novocherkassk Confirmed SUNK By Storm Shadow in Photo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RlFtg6CJ7I
The damaged ship spontaneously spread chunks of itself all around the city in a goodwill gesture and in the hopes that the people could put the jigsaw puzzle back together again, along with the pieces of meat from the former crew.
Kind of itself to share so freely.
And you cited material doesn't show how many deaths and injuries due to shelling occurred as a result of shelling from Ukrainian government controlled territory. Most deaths and injuries from shelling before the 2022 invasion resulted from shelling started by Russians and their allies.
You did leave out the locations of the greatest numbers of civilian casualties. Places like Avdiivka, which the OSCE listed as one of the worst places for civilian deaths and injuries due to shelling. Then as now Avdiivka was controlled by the Ukrainian government, so the incoming shells were fired by Russians.
Since the Russian invasion the number of civilians killed by Russian shelling has become much, much larger. Take a look at any city or town in Donetsk where the Russians are attacking:
Shelling of the Donetsk region: 4 people were killed, three were woundedOn the morning of December 26, the Russian military fired artillery at the city of Toretsk in the Bakhmut district of the Donetsk region. As a result, two pensioners died: a 67-year-old woman and a 74-year-old man. The Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine writes about this on Facebook. At the same time, another local resident died in the suburb of Toretsk, in the village of Severnoye. One person was injured.
A few hours later Avdeevka came under fire. A 61-year-old man died; rescuers rescued his wife, who was seriously injured, from the rubble of their house. In addition, a 61-year-old woman died during shelling of the village of Konstantinovka, Pokrovsky district of the region.
That's 4 dead Ukrainian civilians in one day. During the period from July 2020 to Sept. 2020 only one person was injured. And he was injured by Russian shelling in Marinka.
How many civilians in Ukraine died from shelling in 2012, before Russia seized Crimea and started the violence in the Donbass? Zero.
Huh?
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