Man inspects building damage from Russian missile attacks in Nikolaev, April 15 (CNN)
A spokesman for the Ukrainian armed forces in southern Ukraine suggested that Russian missile attacks in the south on Thursday night were revenge for the sinking of the Russian cruiser Moscow.
Natalia Humeniuk said the attack affected not only [Russia’s] ships, but also the imperial ambitions of the enemy. “
She told a media briefing on Friday that after the attack on Moscow, “we all realize that we will not be forgiven”.
Ukraine said two of its anti-ship missiles had hit Moscow, while the Kremlin said only that a fire on board had led to the possible overturning of its Black Sea Fleet’s flagship.
Humeniuk said that “when the ammunition exploded, it showed that they were loaded enough to continue destroying Ukraine … The strike detonated the ammunition, they began to fight for survival.”
“We saw other ships trying to help the cruiser, but even nature was on Ukraine’s side because the storm did not allow a rescue operation or evacuate personnel,” she continued.
Humeniuk mentioned Russian missile attacks in the south on Thursday night after the attack in Moscow.
“Currently there is an attack in Nikolaev. We see that this is again the use of cluster munitions prohibited by international conventions,” she said.
A CNN team in Nikolaev on Friday heard numerous explosions in the morning between 10:20 and 12 o’clock local time. At least two people were killed in front of an Orthodox church in the city.
Humeniuk said that the situation in Mykolayiv and Kherson districts “is characterized by the fact that the enemy uses its brutal manners in deploying equipment and units between local civilians and civilian infrastructure such as schools, kindergartens, hospitals and yards. of the locals “.
“Then at night they disappeared from these positions, left the villages and fired on them, accusing the Ukrainian armed forces of shelling civilians,” she said.
“Such actions are being taken to justify their status as liberators in the occupied territories,” she added.
“We are aware that the attacks against us will increase, that the enemy will try to take revenge,” Humeniuk said. “We are ready, we are resisting.”
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