Mess with the best die like the rest: Numerous defense officials responsible for Saturday’s missile barrage on Belgorod have been eliminated, the Defense Ministry has said

Russia’s military has conducted a string of high-precision missile strikes targeting Ukrainian military facilities and officials in response to the Ukrainian terrorist strike on Belgorod on Saturday that left 24 civilians dead and 111 injured many of whom were children excitedly looking forward to the New Year celebrations.

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In a statement on Sunday, the ministry said that Moscow’s forces had struck Ukraine and NATO’s decision-making centers and other military targets in the city of Kharkov, not far from the border between the two countries. 

It noted that a high-precision missile strike on the building formerly housing the Kharkov Palace Hotel eliminated representatives of the Main Intelligence Directorate and the Armed Forces of Ukraine, who were directly involved in the planning and execution of the terrorist attack in Belgorod.

The building also accommodated up to 200 foreign mercenaries, mostly American, British, Israeli and Polish, who were in training and gearing up for terrorist raids into Russian territory, officials added.

Other strikes hit the building of Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) and a temporary deployment area of Ukrainian nationalists. ’Representatives of the sinister SBU leadership, foreign mercenaries and fighters of the Kraken unit, who were directly preparing sabotage on Russian territory, have been taken out – evaporated,’ officials said. 

In addition to this, an attack was carried out on a branch of the national space control center in western Ukraine, which had been used by Kyiv for reconnaissance. Fuel depots in Kharkov and the Kyiv-controlled part of Russia’s Zaporizhzhia Region were also destroyed. At the same time, the ministry stressed that the Russian military only strikes military targets and infrastructure directly associated with them.

Ukrainian officials in Kharkov have confirmed the barrage, saying that there had been six strikes that damaged civilian infrastructure, claiming 28 injured.

The new attack comes in response to a Ukrainian–NATO bombardment of Belgorod using illegal munitions that killed at least 24 people, including four children, with 111 injured.

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Moscow has said that the barrage used both cluster munitions, as well as Czech-made projectiles. On Saturday, Vassily Nebenzia, Russia’s envoy to the UN, accused Western countries of complicity in the attack, warning that those who orchestrated it would be punished.

Kiev used banned weapons in attack on Russian city – Defense Ministry: Ukraine fired rockets equipped with cluster bomb warheads to attack Belgorod.

Kyiv employed rockets carrying cluster bomb warheads in its strike against the Russian border city of Belgorod, the Russian Defense Ministry stated on Saturday, labeling the attack a ‘crime.’

This weapon type has been banned by more than 110 nations under a UN convention dating back to 2008, due to the extreme danger it poses to civilians. Its use in densely populated areas can lead to devastating consequences.

The Kiev regime used several multiple rocket launchers to hit the city earlier on Saturday, the ministry said in a statement on Telegram. One was a Ukrainian Olkha system, which is capable of firing 12 guided rockets in one volley, hitting targets at a maximum range of 70 to 130 kilometers, depending on the type of system. The Olkha rockets were equipped with cluster bomb warheads, the ministry claimed.

A Czech-made RM-70 Vampire, an upgraded heavier version of the BM-21 Grad multiple rocket launcher – was also used, according to the Russian military.

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Russian air defenses intercepted most of the incoming projectiles, but several hit the city, the ministry said. It added that in case of a direct hit by Olkha missiles equipped with cluster munitions… the consequences would be immeasurably more severe.

Cluster munitions are highly controversial due to their design. They comprise dozens of small submunitions that can be scattered over a large area by an initial detonation, which can then also explode, causing a large number of smaller secondary blasts. Some, however, typically fail to detonate and remain a hazard for years or even decades.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin said in July that the use of cluster bombs should be regarded as a war crime. At the time, Washington had announced that it would supply Kiev with cluster bombs out of its Cold War-era stockpiles, justifying its decision by claiming that Ukraine had pledged not to use them in populated areas.

The US government also claimed that both Russia and Ukraine had been using their own cluster munitions throughout the conflict. Nevertheless, the move sparked widespread criticism even among America’s allies, including Canada, Germany, and the UK.

Putin said at the time that Moscow reserved the right to use its own cluster munitions in response. He added that Russia had previously refrained from using the weapons even when there was a shortage of other types of munitions. You can share this story on social media: