A Himars was used. I recall the US said only military targets would be hit using himars and US would e involved in target selection. . I also heard that NATO/US are the likely operators as the himars require a lot of training to operate. Not near the front. Not a military site.
I heard that other than hatred, Kiev hopes to goad RU into replying in kind to elicit sympathy for Kiev and to show what monsters RU is. The bakery footage will not likely be shown in the western MSM. RU could vaporize a city block in downtown Kiev but Putin has refused despite public pressure.
https://www.rt.com/russia/591910-ukrainian-bakery-strike-justification/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=RSS Ukrainian official tries to justify the killing of 28 civilians in Russian bakery
Petr Andryuschenko called the strike “heavenly punishment,” insisting it was legitimate because it claimed the life of Lugansk’s emergencies minister
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Moscow has denounced Kiev for the “terrorist attack.” However, former aide to the mayor of Mariupol Petr Andryuschenko (who fled the city in early 2022 following the outbreak of conflict) has
suggested that the death of the regional minister in the attack legitimized the murder of 27 others.Mariupol, located in the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), was liberated by Russian forces early in the ongoing conflict.
“At the end of the week, late in the evening, heavenly punishment visited Lisichansk in a restaurant near a bakery, where the
top collaborators had already celebrated two birthdays,” Andryuschenko wrote on Telegram, claiming that only the restaurant was destroyed, while the bakery itself remained “intact.”
It was not immediately clear where he’d come by his information, given that the bakery and the restaurant were effectively a single establishment, located in the same building. Its structure ended up heavily damaged in the Ukrainian strike, partially collapsing and burying dozens of civilians under the rubble.
Additionally, the strike did not exactly happen “late in the evening” as Andryuschenko claimed, but occurred shortly after 5pm local time.
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The official also urged the Ukrainian side to brag about such attacks in the future, arguing that Kiev should have released the news of the strike first, while
describing the bakery as an “assembly point” of “collaborators.” Early information releases, according to the former aide, deprive Russia of the “information field advantage.”
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US ex pat Patrick Lancaster goes to the site with video camera and interviews locals.
https://youtu.be/AZKeqH3fkfw Ukraine War Bakery Massacre: 28 Killed In Lysychansk (Special Report)
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Feb 5, 2024 #Russia #Ukraine
The Ukrainian Massacre at a busy bakery in Russian controlled frontline city of Lysychansk, where Ukraine fired a purportedly USA supplied HIMARs Rocket, killed 28 civilians and injured 10 more. One of those killed was The head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the LPR, Alexey Poteleshchenko. This attack took place on Saturday February 3rd. In the Special Report We speak to the Director of the main hospital in Lugansk about what situation the injured are in now, talk to one of the injured, look in on the several injured that are in serious condition, show you the aftermath of the attack including the emergency worker pulling bodies and injured from underneath the rubble and talk to the locals who all say that the area was just a civilian area where no military forces are.
