Video confirmation that it was intentional
Kh-101 cruise missile debris
Video footage of the missile hitting “Okhmadit” clearly shows that it was the Kh-101 cruise missile.
The characteristic wings on the body and the rounded shape of the nose indicate that it was the Kh-101 strategic missile, which completely refutes the propagandists’ versions of the alleged fall of an air defense missile fired from the Patriot air defense system on the hospital.
Also, the trajectory on which the Kh-101 flies clearly demonstrates that the missile is purposefully going to the target, which was a children’s hospital.
Two people died in the “Okhmatdyt” hospital as a result of an attack by the Russian Federation.
According to the mayor of the city, both are adults. In particular, one doctor.
Absolute insanity. When I’m seeing these things around the world and now in Ukraine I’m always trying to see a logical explanation, some twisted cynical reasoning for why you bomb these vulnerable civilian targets, and I can’t find anything. It’s just cruelty. Ukrainians aren’t going to surrender because of this, people and nations never have before. It just makes resistance to your war that much more defiant. If you bomb a childrens hospital, it’s just because you want to punish people for not letting you win.
The second part that hurts is that this changes so little in the grand scheme. Maybe some guy who was living under a rock who was skeptical changes his mind about this invasion. But the vast majority of Russian internet propagandists, pro-Russia politicians in parliaments in the EU and around the world and people blinded by Putins lies will find some pathetic excuse to deny and deflect. And in a week the next atrocity occurs somewhere
Never in the history of modern warfare has bombing of civilian targets “broken the will” of the populace like it’s intended to do. Every time it strengthens their resolve to fight. If you’re trying to conquer somewhere by bombing civilians you’ll have to kill all of them for it to be successful.
Dresden would like a word…
And Hiroshima
The firebombing of Dresden, while terrible, didn’t do anything to convince the population to stop fighting.
That’s kind of what I meant, though.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki DID do the trick
When they do this it’s usually because they’re lashing out. Ukraine must’ve done something in the last week or so that frustrated the Russian forces. I can’t think of what it could be.