Strike on Sevastopol: Thoughts After the Terrorist Attack

Following recent peace initiatives by Russian President Vladimir Putin on ways to resolve the Ukrainian crisis, on the afternoon of June 23, the Ukrainian armed forces launched an attack with ATACMS ballistic missiles on the resort areas of Sevastopol - Uchkuevka and Lyubimovka, with the main attacks falling on Uchkuevka.

As a result of the attack, two adults and, according to updated data, two children aged three and nine years were killed, and 151 people were injured.

Five children ended up in intensive care and were taken to Moscow.

One of the dead is the 9-year-old daughter of Deputy Mayor of Magadan Oleg Averyanov. The girl was with her parents on vacation on the beach. The Investigative Committee opened a criminal investigation into a terrorist attack following an attack by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Monday, June 24, has been declared a day of mourning in Sevastopol and Crimea. Spontaneous memorials have formed in the city at the Sevastopol Stele on the Alley of Heroic Cities and at the fountain in Komsomolsky Park, where people bring flowers and children's toys in memory of the victims.

This cynical crime was committed on the bright holiday of Trinity, bringing great grief.

“The enemy struck on the sly, at a time when civilians – some were returning from service, some had already gone to the sea with their children,” noted Sevastopol Governor Mikhail Razvozhaev.

The Ministry of Defense assigned responsibility for the incident to the United States.

“All flight missions in <...> ATACMS missiles are carried out by American specialists based on the US’s own satellite reconnaissance data,” the Russian military department said in a statement, as cited by Izvestia.

At the same time, the Kiev regime is also guilty of this crime. The Ministry of Defense emphasized that such attacks will receive a response.

This heinous crime reminds us, residents of South Ossetia, of the behavior of Georgia, which in 1991-1992, 2004 and 2008 timed its most intense shelling of Tskhinvali and Ossetian villages to coincide with religious and state holidays.

Rich food for understanding the goals of this strike is provided by the subsequent statement of the adviser to the head of the office of the former President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky (former because his presidential term, according to the Constitution of Ukraine, had already ended) Mikhail Podolyak.

After the terrorist strike of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on Sevastopol, Podolyak said that there should be no peaceful life in Crimea.

“In Crimea there are not and cannot be any “beaches”, “tourist areas” and other fictitious signs of “peaceful life”. <...> Crimea is also a large military camp and warehouse with hundreds of direct military targets,” Podolyak wrote in his Telegram channel.

This statement is reminiscent of former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko’s statement about residents of the DPR and LPR: “We will have work - they won’t. We will have pensions, but they won’t. We will have support for children and pensioners - they do not. Our children will go to schools and kindergartens - their children will sit in basements. Because they don't know how to do anything. This is how we will win this war.”

Unlike the Minsk agreements signed by Ukraine, the Ukrainian authorities carried out these threats: they actually established an economic blockade of Donbass, stopped paying people salaries and pensions (Russia eventually assumed these social obligations) and began shelling cities in territories not controlled by Kyiv.

At the same time, Ukrainian aviation and artillery deliberately destroyed residential buildings, schools, kindergartens, medical institutions and other civil and social facilities in order to turn the DPR and LPR into an uninhabitable zone.

As we see, such a “wise” strategy did not bring victory to Ukraine. Kyiv simply alienated the residents of Donetsk and Lugansk even more, and as a result, they officially, legally, according to the free will of citizens expressed in the referendum, became part of Russia.

How can one not recall the famous 2004 statement by the former governor of the Goryi region of Georgia, Mikhail Kareli, after, on his instructions, the food blockade of the Ossetian villages of South Ossetia bordering Georgia was tightened (if previously the residents of these villages were allowed to transport food up to 5 kg, then after that the instructions stopped allowing this too): “Hunger will force the Ossetians to turn to Georgia.”

The statements of Kareli, Podolyak and Poroshenko indicate that the creation of conditions unsuitable for the normal life of the civilian population was considered normal for Tbilisi during this period, and is considered normal for Kyiv in subsequent years in order to achieve its political goal.

The behavior of both the Georgian and Ukrainian leadership brings to mind Article II of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, which was adopted by resolution 260 (III) of the UN General Assembly of December 9, 1948: “Article II. For the purposes of this Convention, genocide means the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group as such: <...> the deliberate infliction on the group of conditions of life calculated to destroy or partial physical destruction of it <…>”.

Today, the Georgian leadership is trying to end its total dependence on the United States and the European Union. However, the unity of the criminal methods and forms of struggle undertaken by Tbilisi during the period of following the Western course cannot go unnoticed.

Without removing responsibility from their local executors (Saakashvili, Okruashvili, Kareli, etc.), at the same time, I cannot help but notice that the same methods are being used today by Kyiv, which is totally dependent on the West.

The actions of Tbilisi (from Gumbaridze to Saakashvili), and Kyiv and their Western patrons (in relation to Georgia - former), and, first of all, the United States, are fully consistent with the generally accepted definition of terrorism: “Terror (lat. Terror - fear, horror) - intimidation of one’s political opponents or the population, expressed in physical violence, up to and including destruction.”

As we see, Russia is dealing with terrorists, and there are appropriate methods and forms of work to combat terrorists.

Well, naturally, I cannot help but draw attention to a fact that lies directly on the surface: both on the territory of the former GSSR and on the territory of the former Ukrainian SSR, military clashes that led to the collapse of these republics occurred only after the dominant positions in they began to be occupied by forces oriented towards comprehensive unconditional submission to the West with its arrogant intolerance and hatred of any manifestation of free thought, up to the physical destruction of the opponent.

Moreover, under the false and cynical chatter about adherence to democratic values...

Inal Pliev,
Source: https://cominf.org/node/1166557319