Blow on Crimea: Civilian on the beach became victims of Russian air defense - isw (video)

According to analysts, in the Russian Federation tried to associate street fights in Dagestan and shelling of occupied Crimea. In the first case, accusing NATO and Ukraine, in the second case - Kiev and Washington. Experts, analyzing the missile attack in the occupied Crimea, concluded that victims among civilians are a consequence of Russian air defense, not targeting the rocket. This was reported at the Institute of War Study (ISW).

The ISW notes that victims among civilian populations in Crimea were the result of Russia's interception of the approaching ATACMS missile rather than a deliberate decision of Ukraine to target it. The Russian Defense Ministry acknowledged that the Russian air defense interceptor forced the Ukrainian rocket to deviate from the flight trajectory and explode in Sevastopol.

An unaffected American official also reported that Russian troops were able to intercept the ATACMS rocket aimed at the Russian missile installation, causing the ATACMS rocket to explode and collapsed Schrapnell on the Sevastopol beach. We will remind, on June 23 Russian invaders declared attack by ATACMS missiles, the fragments of which as a result of the work of air defense fell on a beach in a Uchkuyevka near Sevastopol in occupied Crimea.

The missile blow to Sevastopol in Russia was called "bloody crime", and the United States was accused of conducting a hybrid war and supplying ATACMS. The US Ambassador in Russian Federation Lynn Tracy reported that the permission to strikes on the Russian Federation will not remain for Washington "unpunished" and promised "measures in response".

The Russian Foreign Ministry published a statement that the attack was made specifically in "one of the most important Orthodox holidays" - the Holy Trinity Day. And the ATACMS missiles allegedly cited "US experts", having received the intelligence through the alternation of Global Hawk in the sky.

Later on June 23, the Ukrainian forces struck the Russian Center for Far Space Communications - an important military object of the Russian space communications and satellite navigation - near the occupied Evpatoria in the west of Crimea through the ATACMS system. The Center was part of the air space forces (PCS) of Russia after the occupation of Crimea in Russia in 2014.

On June 24, Ukrainian military expert Anatoly Khrapchinsky reported that on the territory of the Center there is a Russian satellite surveillance system and collecting liana radio intelligence, which includes Lotus and Pion-City satellites. Khrapchynsky added that Pion-NNC, in particular, uses radars for maritime intelligence and information gathering.

Khrapchynsky added that the Russian military may have used the Center for Managing Glonas Satellite Satellite Satellite Satellite Satellites, the Russian GPS system, operated by the Russian State Space Corporation "Roscosmos".

It is noteworthy, but in the Russian Federation absurdly tried to associate Ukrainian strikes on June 23 on legal military facilities in occupied Sevastopol and Crimea and fires and street battles in Dagestan, which was believed to be committed by members with the Islamic State (IDIL) in the Republic of Dagestan.

The Kremlin Prescriber Dmitry Peskov stated on June 24 that the Russian investigative bodies would determine whether the Crimean strike and the "terrorist attack in Dagestan" were one series of incidents or individual incidents. The Deputy Chairman of the Security Council Dmitry Medvedev and the head of the Russian Liberal-Democratic Party (LDPR) Leonid Slutsky called both events "terrorist attacks".

And the head of the State Duma of Russia Vyacheslav Volodin stated that it is possible that the "customers" of these both events will be "the same". Earlier, the Chief of the Main Directorate of Military Intelligence of Ukraine (GUR) Lieutenant General Kirill Budanov stated that a sufficient number of ATACMS missiles provided for a long range could allow Ukrainian forces 'Gloc) between occupied Crimea and Russia.

He stated that Ukraine can isolate the occupied Crimea, which the Russian soldiers use as a rear bridgehead. The current US policy on the use of weapons supplying the event to Ukraine allows Ukraine to strike anywhere in Ukraine occupied by Russia, which probably covers the use of a long range ATACMS system to strike the bridge through the Kerch Strait within the internationally recognized land and the maritime borders of Ukraine.

We will remind, earlier Focus reported how in the office of the President reacted to events in Sevastopol. Advisor to Presidential Office Mikhail Podolyak stated that Russia was using the territory of the temporarily occupied Crimea for its military purposes and is covered by civilians. The tourists themselves and the inhabitants of the Crimea reported on June 23 that there was no signal of air anxiety before the shelling.