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No RS saying the attack was targeting civilians, and no RS saying Ukraine bears the responsibility. Quite the contrary: Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, June 24, 2024 | Institute for the Study of War (understandingwar.org)The Kremlin information operation linking these two events is nonsensical if only because the civilian casualties in Crimea resulted from Russia's interception of an incoming ATACMS missile rather than a deliberate Ukrainian targeting decision. The Russian MoD acknowledged that a Russian air defense interceptor caused the Ukrainian missile to deviate from its flight path and detonate in Sevastopol.[15] An unspecified US official also told Reuters in a June 24 article that Russian forces were able to intercept the ATACMS missile targeting a Russian missile launcher causing the ATACMS missile to explode and rain down shrapnel on the Sevastopol beach.[16]. ManyAreasExpert (talk) 09:05, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Manyareasexpert, this is an isolated demand for rigour. No one said that the template should be used only when the civilians were *targeted*, in the sense of being the planned target of an attack. Most of the time it'd be very hard to definitively prove who was targeted, as it'd require either some kind of leak or an admission by a perpetrator.
The Russian MoD never ever said it was an intercepted missile, yet u cite a Reuters article becoz u labeled it "Reliable Source" which is based upon an ISW assesment. ISW is an organization run by Victoria Nuland's family and employs 20 something brainwashed students as experts. Funny how u design western sting operations as reliable.
If you watch the video of the attack then you can see the pattern of the clusters that proves it was not hit, not intercepted, not malfuctioning, it was normally detonated partly over the water and over the beach.
In this war western mainstream media and american thinktanks are not reliable. They are part of the propaganda. The whole system of this reliable source bullshit and ppl behind it renders WP a joke when it comes to current politics and events. 85.67.101.241 (talk) 05:25, 12 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
