The rocket landing on the Sevastopol beach could not have been a deliberate attack.
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BILD writes about this. The publication’s analysts noted that on Sunday, June 23, rocket debris fell on Uchkuevka beach in occupied Crimea. Four people were killed and more than 150 were injured.
Russia initially claimed to have shot down the Ukrainian ATACMS. But Moscow later abandoned this version and accused Kyiv of a deliberate attack. BILD open data analysis expert Julian Röpke argues against this.
The beach is 4 km south of the military airfield and 3 km north of the naval base. Previously, Ukraine openly stated that Russian Armed Forces facilities in Crimea would become targets of attacks and warned about the dangers of traveling to the peninsula.
Fragments of missiles from the Tor anti-aircraft missile system were found on the beach, indicating the work of Russian air defense.
Each ATACMS contains 950 small M74 fragmentation submunitions, designed to cause as much damage as possible. These are what were scattered in all directions when the missile was shot down.
The footage shows that most of the fragments fall into the sea not along the beach, but across it. So, ATACMS was flying to another target, such as an airfield or naval base, and was shot down on approach. Only a small portion of debris fell onto the beach. If the Ukrainian Armed Forces had deliberately attacked tourists with an ATACMS missile, the human losses would have been incomparably greater.
The debris found on the beach is similar to missiles from the Russian Tor anti-aircraft missile system. It fires 9M330 anti-aircraft guided missiles.
Source: Racurs
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