Russia reserves the right to tough retaliatory measures. The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, made such a statement, commenting on the rocket attack on Taganrog and another attempt by Ukraine to attack the Moscow region with drones. The Kiev regime continues its favorite practice of strikes on civilian objects, said the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov. The blow was struck specifically on the residential infrastructure of Taganrog – according to the townspeople, the explosion was so strong that an alarm went off for cars within a radius of 10 km. According to the Ministry of Health, 14 people were injured. It is already known that the attack was carried out by an anti-aircraft missile of the S-200 air defense system – such remained only in service with Ukraine, military experts say.
Two attacks
A terrorist attack by an anti-aircraft missile of the S-200 air defense system converted into a strike version was carried out on Friday, July 28, the Russian Defense Ministry reported. The blow was inflicted on the residential infrastructure of Taganrog, Rostov region, stressed in the military department. Russian air defense systems detected and intercepted a Ukrainian missile in the air – its fragments fell in the city.
“As a result of the terrorist act committed by the Kyiv regime, several buildings were damaged. There are also casualties among civilians,” the Ministry of Defense said in a statement.
According to the governor of the Rostov region Vasily Golubev, the epicenter of the detonation fell on the territory of the Taganrog Art Museum. “The wall of the museum, the roof, garages and outbuildings were destroyed. The frames in the windows and balconies of a neighboring three-story apartment building were knocked out, ”he said.
On this day, at about 5:15 p.m., the Kiev regime made another attempt at a terrorist attack – again with a S-200 missile. It was intercepted by Russian air defense systems near the city of Azov in the Rostov region. According to the Ministry of Defense, fragments of ammunition fell in a deserted area.
Press Secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov, in a conversation with Izvestia, noted that the strike was repelled by Russian air defense, which worked well.
– The Kiev regime continues its favorite practice of striking at civilian objects, at settlements. And this is the essence of the Kyiv regime. Actually, starting from 2014, they began to clearly show this essence in relation to Donbass, now – in relation to all other regions, – he told Izvestia.
Kyiv’s actions had no military meaning, stressed the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova.
“We strongly condemn the latest criminal actions of the Kyiv regime against the civilian population and peaceful infrastructure,” she said.
Russia reserves the right to tough retaliation after Ukraine shelled Taganrog and tried to attack the Moscow region with drones, warned Maria Zakharova.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs calls on the international community and organizations to condemn the use of terrorist methods by the Ukrainian regime. On July 28, Dmitry Peskov suggested that the West would not react in any way to the shelling.
“There’s a children’s clinic – quite a crowded place.»
According to preliminary data, 14 people were injured after the emergency in Taganrog, the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation reported. The Federal Center for Disaster Medicine coordinates the provision of medical care.
According to Vasily Golubev, 12 people were delivered to the city’s medical facilities, two of whom refused hospitalization. According to him, one of the victims had a traumatic brain injury, and she had already undergone surgery.
Fire and rescue units are on duty at the scene of the emergency, the Ministry of Emergency Situations specified. 60 rescuers and 17 pieces of equipment are working, the governor wrote in his Telegram channel.
The chefs of the Chekhov Garden cafe, next to which the explosion occurred, told Izvestia the details of what happened.
– They stood, the usual process was going on, and suddenly flew in – the windows flew out. Dirt, shards. Four people from the kitchen cut themselves, the girl cut herself. Three stunned people were brought here, they say.
According to the townspeople, glass in the windows of the houses shook, and a cloud of smoke rose over the place where the debris of the downed rocket fell.
– It all happened around 16:00, I was at home. It seemed to me that it happened right outside the window,” says one of the eyewitnesses. – Later I found out that it was 10 km from us, in the city center. There is a children’s clinic, quite a crowded place.
A family from the LPR, who left here from Ukrainian shelling, became eyewitnesses of the attack on Taganrog.
Our neighbor’s windows were broken. Everything is fine with us, just in a state of shock,” one of the women told Izvestia.
Her mother at that moment was in the apartment – according to her, the house at the time of the emergency “went like a wave.”
“I grabbed the baby right away. This is familiar to us – we are from the LPR, in 2014 we fled the war. I knew right away what it was,” she says.
“The first thing to do is to provide all necessary assistance, both medical and psychological, to the victims. Also organize work on the inspection of destruction, ”he wrote in his Telegram channel the head of the administration of Taganrog Andrey Fateev.
After the fall of fragments of a Ukrainian rocket in Taganrog, a local emergency regime was introduced. Investigators and forensic specialists from the regional investigative department of the Russian Investigative Committee left for the scene, the department said. A criminal case has been initiated under the article “Terrorist act”.
“Nand Ukraine had several such air defense corps»
The 5V21 missile of the S-200 anti-aircraft missile system is no longer in service with the Russian air defense forces, Lieutenant-General Aitech Bizhev, ex-Deputy Air Force Commander for the Joint Air Defense System of the CIS, told Izvestia.
– S-200 is a long-range complex with a far boundary of the affected area of 255 km on the active site. That is, her engine works up to this range, then there is still a passive section. For this reason, it can fly 300 km. Its warhead is quite impressive, about 200 kg in TNT equivalent, – the expert noted.
With some technical improvements, such missiles can pose a certain danger, but modern Russian air defense systems destroy them.
“Until recently, these missiles were in service with Ukraine,” Aitech Bizhev emphasized.
He recalled that in Soviet times there were three border military districts on Ukrainian territory.
— At one time it was the peak of technical thought. No one had such missile systems as the S-200. It is not known how many of them are left – in Ukraine there were several air defense corps, these are several dozen complexes, – said Aitech Bizhev.
It is worth noting that this is not the first strike inflicted with the help of S-200 missiles on the territory of Russia. On July 9 of this year, the armed forces of the Russian Federation intercepted five such munitions in the Crimea, Rostov and Kaluga regions. Their targets were to be the Crimean Bridge and the military airfields Morozovsk in the Rostov and Shaikovka in the Kaluga regions.
On the morning of July 28, air defense systems prevented a terrorist attack on a Ukrainian drone in the Moscow region, the military department said. There were no casualties or damage as a result of the thwarted attack, the Russian military department said.
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