Anonymous ID: 635f74 Feb. 26, 2022, 7:37 a.m. No.15728647   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun   >>8861 >>9068 >>9107 >>9194 >>9246

US Drones Were Likely in the Air During Ukrainian Attack on Russian Ships, MoD Says

 

Moscow put its military operation in Ukraine on hold Friday afternoon after Kiev declared readiness to negotiate, but resumed it after Ukraine's leaders rejected talks Saturday on the grounds that the conditions weren't right.

The probability is high that US drones were in the air directing Ukrainian boats whichstaged an attacks on ships of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, Russia's defence ministry has said.

"I would like to point special attention to the fact that during the attack by Ukrainian vessels, strategic US RQ-4 Global Hawk and MQ9A Reaper unmanned aerial vehicles were loitering over the area," MoD spokesman Igor Konashenkov has said.

 

"There is a strong likelihood that it was the American UAVs that directed Ukrainian boats at the ships of the Russian Black Sea Fleet," the spokesman said in a briefing Saturday.

According to Konashenkov's information, 16 Ukrainian Navy boats using 'swarm tactics' attempted to attack Russian warships near Zmiinyi Island (Snake Island) off Odessa, southwestern Ukraine on Friday night during the evacuation of 82 Ukrainian troops that surrendered to Russian forces from the island.

Some of these boats attempted to use civilian vessels as cover, the spokesman said.

In the course of the fighting, six of the Ukrainian Navy boats were destroyed. None of the 82 Ukrainian servicemen retrieved from Zmiinyi Island were injured, Konashenkov said.

 

https://sputniknews.com/20220226/us-drones-were-in-the-air-during-attack-on-russian-ships-mod-says-1093398634.html

Anonymous ID: 635f74 Feb. 26, 2022, 8:50 a.m. No.15729219   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun   >>9246 >>9323

Moscow: Strasbourg Ignored Killing of Civilians by Ukrainian Death Squads in Donbass for 8 Years

 

Russia has repeatedly urged the West to pay attention and investigate cases of human rights violations and war crimes committed by neo-Nazis against Russian-speaking population in the Donbass region after the 2014 coup.

The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg has been ignoring the killing of thousands of civilians by Ukrainian death squads in Donbass for eight years, the Russian Foreign Ministry's spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.

 

"For the past eight years, Strasbourg has not had the guts to condemn the criminal policy of the nationalistic Kiev regime that committed genocide against the people of Donbass. It preferred to turn a blind eye to atrocities committed by Ukrainian death squads that left thousands of civilians dead," Zakharova said.

 

The statement comes days after Russian President Putin announced the beginning of a โ€œspecial operationโ€ to protect the people's republics of Donetsk and Lugansk (DPR, LPR) and "demilitarise and denazify" Ukraine. By "denazifying" he means to free Ukraine from neo-Nazi squads who have been imposing their ideology in the country since the Western-backed coup of 2014.

 

In his address to the nation, Putin said that Russia was left with no other choice after receiving a request for military assistance from the DPR and LPR amid intensified shelling by Kiev's forces. The Russian Defence Ministry said the operation has only been targeting military infrastructure in Ukraine while the civilian population is not in danger. Moscow says it has no plans to occupy Ukraine.

 

https://sputniknews.com/20220226/moscow-strasbourg-ignored-killing-of-civilians-by-ukrainian-death-squads-in-donbass-for-8-years-1093397755.html