Kyiv Claims ‘Bucha 2.0’ Attack on Children's Hospital in Time for NATO Summit
July 10—Part of Kyiv’s Okhmatdyt children’s hospital was hit by a missile July 8, resulting, as reported by Kyiv’s Mayor Vitali Klitschko, in the death of 2 adults and injuries to up to 16 people. Both Kyiv and Moscow agree that the building was hit by a missile during a major Russian attack, with Ukraine claiming a Russian missile hit the facility while Russia says that it was likely an American-supplied anti-missile missile.
Some intelligence sources point out that the Ukrainian claims are eerily parallel to the false reports and fake videos about Russian troops committing atrocities early in the war in the Kyiv suburb of Bucha. These were later proven to have been faked, with atrocities staged by the notorious Nazis of the Azov Battalion for the Ukrainian propaganda machine, which knew they were fake.
In this latest incident, Ukraine’s secret service, SBU, provided a puzzling photo, purporting to show a fragment of a Russian Kh-101 cruise missile with an identifying serial number, reported Ukrainska Pravda. However, what is displayed is not a number stamped in metal, but what appears to be a rather clownish, hand-painted and very enlarged number. Further, an anonymous SBU source is cited saying that there’s a video of the Russian missile heading straight at the hospital, without having been hit and deflected by the Ukrainians.
Russia’s Defense Ministry stated yesterday: "Claims by representatives of the Kyiv regime alleging a purportedly deliberate Russian strike on civilian sites are absolutely not true. Numerous photos and videos from Kyiv irrefutably confirm destruction by a Ukrainian anti-aircraft missile, which was fired by a launcher positioned inside the city.
“We especially note that similar hysterics by the Kyiv regime have been happening for several years now, and each time on the eve of another meeting (summit) of its NATO patrons.”
The Belarus-based Military Summary Channel explained last evening that four X-101 Russian missiles flew over the hospital on their way to their target, the Artyom munitions plant. Radar tracking shows the missiles approached on a route over the hospital to the plant 1.3 km away. Hence, suspicion is cast on either an X-101 missile or on an air defense missile launched at the X-101. However, the X-101 warheads would have caused far greater damage than what occurred at the section of the hospital building.
Critics of the SBU’s case describe the cited video as filmed from a distance and showing what was most probably an AIM120 fired by a NASAM missile system or an interceptor fired by the MIM-104 Patriot missile system. Both of those are Western weapons provided to Ukraine.
Ukraine’s sock puppet dictator Volodymyr Zelenskyy declared yesterday that it was a Russian missile and that Moscow’s attribution of it to Ukrainian air defenses demonstrates “the cynicism of ugly bastards in the Kremlin.” It’s “impossible that Russia does not know where its missiles fly and must fully answer for its crimes.” Kyiv authorities brought members of the foreign diplomatic corps to the hospital yesterday to hear the narrative and to witness the alleged “Russian atrocity,” as they prepared to take their case to the UN.
However, Zelenskyy’s narrative took a distant second place for contrived insanity to that of advisor to Ukraine’s presidential administration Mykhailo Podolyak, an attendee at the NATO summit inWashington, who explained on X, according to The Guardian, that Moscow is sending an “informal signal” that “even the outright murder of children will not make” the NATO alliance “take all the necessary decisions…. This is a fully deliberate action, specifically designed and approved by … Putin. On the eve of the @Nato summit. As a slap in the face to the alliance.”
Podolyak goes on to attack China and Hungary for seeking a ceasefire, saying “And its purpose is to create a false feeling: the aggressor has the right to kill, because he speaks of ‘peace’, and the victim should not defend himself and therefore should immediately stop resistance….” He concludes his assault with targetting the United Nations: “Right now, the country that deliberately launched a massive strike on Ukrainian cities and a children’s medical facility in Kyiv continues to preside over the… @UN Security Council,” and says: “if the war does not end with Russia’s total defeat, the world is in for a terrible short history of bloody chaos… Where life has no value and death is the new synonym for the word ‘russia’.”