"Vine Ukrainian air defense": Russian propagandists justified massive blows in Odessa (photo)
After a massive rocket attack of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation at night, on July 23 in Odessa, which suffered a historic center of the city, monuments of architecture, including the house of scientists, Zhvanetsky Boulevard, as well as the building and shrine of the Holy Transfiguration Cathedral, Russian propagandists, as expected.
"The Armed Forces launched a air defense missile on the Transfiguration Cathedral in Odessa and issued it for Russian,"-commented Olga Skabeva in her Telegram. The Russian propagandist also posted a video of the Holy Transfiguration Cathedral, which suffered from night shelling, signing it with the phrase: "The state of the cathedral after the Ukrainian rocket was hit. " Skabyeva also added cynically during the television that Russia is "happy" to look at the shelling of Odessa.
Skabyeva's comments were joined by another Russian propagandist Vladimir Solovyov. He wrote that in the video of the night shelling of Odessa, published by Skabeva, "the speed of flight of the rocket is far from hypersonic", and the historic center of the city suffered as a result of the debris of the missile lost Ukrainian air defense. "If you look at the map of Odessa, the whole historical center is just two steps from the port.
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation on the night of July 23 made a new massive rocket strike in Odessa. Residential buildings, administration buildings, scientists and Savior-Transfiguration Cathedral of the UOC were injured. According to the latest data, at least one person was killed, 22 were injured, 14 citizens, three of whom were children, hospitalized.
According to the Air Force Command, the enemy released 19 missiles in the regional center, including five supersonic "onyxs", three winged air base missiles X-22, four "calibers", five "Iskander-K" and two "Iskander-M". The air defense forces managed to destroy nine enemy rockets. Russian shells destroyed the Holy Transfiguration Cathedral.
In addition to damage to the building, the Orthodox shrines were injured: from under the rubble they got the Casper icon of the Mother of God, which is the patron saint of Odessa. Volodymyr Zelensky promised that Ukraine will revenge the Russian Federation for another war crime. Focus wrote on July 20 that during the rocket attack of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the Consulate General of the Chinese People's Republic was injured in Odessa.