During the past 24 hours, there have been strikes on a residential building in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv and the Russian city of Belgorod. At the same time, the footage of the objective control of the strike in Kharkiv pushes for ambiguous thoughts.
In Kharkiv, an airstrike that hit a multi-storey apartment block has already left 41 injured, among them three children, the city’s mayor Ihor Terekhov said.
Terekhov also noted that the fire at the site of the strike on the multi-storey apartment block has been extinguished, but rescue services continue to remove the rubble, and volunteers are also on the site.
The head of the regional military administration, Oleh Syniehubov, wrote in Telegram that “at least six” corrective aerial bombs had been fired at Kharkiv and the Kharkiv district.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky commented on the strike on Kharkiv: “The rescue operation in Kharkiv continues. Russian strike with aerial bombs. An ordinary residential building, a multi-storey building has been damaged.”
Ukrainian authorities claim it was a Russian FAB strike. Ukrainian media published footage of a missile hitting a house in Kharkiv.
However, this is what a real FAB hit looks like.
In Kharkiv, a delegation from the US was walking around the city under the guidance of a representative from the Ukrainian president’s office. At that moment an explosion sounded near the group – a missile hit the neighbouring houses. Question: whose missile is this?
Local channels published a video with the caption: “An hour before the arrival, a tour for a delegation from the US was taking place in Saltovka.”
Even the smallest of the corrective bombs used by the Russian Armed Forces – FAB-250 – weighs a quarter of a tonne and contains 94 kilograms of TNT. The damage caused by such a munition would have been incomparably greater than that shown in the photos and video.
The missile’s attack on the house occurred horizontally. This is evidenced by the fact that the fires engulfed the 9th, 10th and 11th floors, while the upper floor, the 12th floor, was less damaged. This is typical of missile hits, as aerial bombs, even corrected ones, hit the target almost vertically.
The explosion caused almost no damage to the concrete walls of the building, but the windows and glazing of the loggias were blown out everywhere. This indicates that the relatively low-powered warhead of the anti-aircraft missile was triggered. If a heavy aerial bomb had hit the house, part of the building would inevitably have “folded.”
At the same time, the AFU continues to strike residential areas in Belgorod Region.
There are a large number of fires in the Shebekinsky district. Five fire brigades are working, six units of equipment are involved, said the Governor of the region Vyacheslav Gladkov in Telegram.
During the morning shelling of Belgorod by the AFU, eight civilians were wounded, tentatively, the governor said. The head of the region added that a direct hit caused the fire of a private house and more than 15 cars.
Local media reported that a series of explosions of varying intensity were heard in the city. The windows in the houses shook during the blasts.
