Killer of aircraft carriers strikes residential building in Ukraine

Kyiv/15.01.23/UNIAN: The number of victims as a result of a Russian missile strike on a high-rise building in the city of Dnipro has grown to 73. Since January 15, three days of mourning have been declared in the city, reports UNIAN.

According to the Dnipro city council, as a result of the Russian strike on a building in the Pobeda residential area on Saturday, January 14, 2023, there was an explosion that completely destroyed one section of the building. "As you know, on the afternoon of January 14, the Russian troops launched a missile attack on a high-rise building where more than 1.100 people live. The explosion completely destroyed one of the sections of the building. As of 07:25, employees of the State Emergency Service rescued 38 people from a destroyed high-rise building, six of them children. 21 people were killed under the rubble, including one child, 73 people were injured, including 14 children."

It should be noted that rescuers, military, city services, police and a lot of equipment are still operating at the scene of the tragedy. The dismantling of the ruins is ongoing. Buses to temporary shelters have been organized for those whose homes have been damaged. The city provides assistance to all people who need it," the City Council added.

Note that the Russians used the X-22 missile– known as the "aircraft carrier killer." The missile is designed to defeat aircraft carrier groups at sea and can be equipped with a nuclear part. The Commander of the Air Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Lieutenant General Nikolay Oleshchuk, noted that the Armed Forces of Ukraine have no means capable of shooting down such missiles. On January 14, five X-22 cruise missiles were fired from five long-range Tu-22m3 bombers of the Russian Aerospace Forces on the territory of Ukraine. The launches were carried out from the Kursk region and from the Azov Sea."

Since the beginning of the Russian military aggression, more than 210 missiles of this type have been fired on the territory of Ukraine. None of them were shot down by air defense means. The mass of the X-22 warhead is about 950 kg. The maximum range is up to 600 km. When used from long distances, the deviation from the target can be hundreds of meters. Only anti-aircraft missile systems, which in the future can be provided to Ukraine by Western partners (the question is about systems such as Patriot PAC-3 or SAMP–T), are capable of intercepting these aerial targets," he said. Russian terror can be stopped on the battlefield only, and Ukraine needs the weapons that our partners have in their warehouses, and that our soldiers are waiting for. The President of Ukraine, Vladimir Zelensky, in an evening video message due to the tragedy in the Dnipro, stated that the Russian terror can only be stopped on the battlefield, and Ukraine needs the weapons that are in the warehouses of its partners, and which Ukrainian soldiers are so waiting for.

“I want to be heard by those people - not only political leaders who still doubt whether it is worth providing Ukraine with weapons that "will help us defeat the terrorist state this year," Zelensky said.