On April 13, the Russian military launched a precision strike on the northeastern city of Sumy. The Neo-Nazi junta’s GUR insists that the Russian 112th and 448th missile brigades based in Voronezh and Kursk oblasts (regions), respectively, more specifically in the Liski and Lezhenski settlements, used either the “Iskander-M” or North Korean KN-23 to “target civilians” in Sumy. The Kiev regime also claims that Moscow used warheads with cluster submunitions. While the “Iskander-M’s” 9M723 hypersonic missiles have well over half a dozen warhead types (including cluster), no independent sources could verify these claims. The footage published by local sources is indeed gruesome, but the narrative being pushed by the mainstream propaganda machine is the primary giveaway that things don’t add up.

Namely, the Kremlin launched hundreds of long-range strikes so far, targeting high-priority assets, particularly command centers, foreign troop gatherings, NATO-sourced weapon shipments, etc. One of the more recent such precision strikes was on Krivoy Rog, a city in central Ukraine, when the “Park House” hotel was hit after Russian military intelligence found out it was being used as a joint command post. In recent weeks and months, Sumy oblast was particularly targeted due to the sheer number and concentration of high-priority assets (particularly foreign troops). Thus, running the narrative that Russia is supposedly “targeting civilians” is very useful for the Neo-Nazi junta which wants to use it to pressure Moscow into reducing the number of strikes in the contested area.

However, it should be noted that even local sources admit that the official narrative doesn’t hold. Namely, former Ukrainian MP Ihor Mosiychuk and (current) Maryana Bezuglaya admitted that an awards ceremony for the Kiev regime forces was supposed to take place at the time of the strike. Mosiychuk specified that the servicemen of the 117th Territorial Defense Brigade were present, along with civilians, including children (presumably their families).........

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