Sputnik International By John Miles
Analyst Mark Sleboda offered an update on Russia’s progress in the Ukraine conflict as Western headlines have been dominated by Kiev’s ill-fated terrorist attack on the Kursk region.
A Russian strike in the city of Poltava on Tuesday made headlines as Ukrainian officials claimed dozens had been killed by a pair of ballistic missiles.
“We do not have to go to Russian officials to determine what was hit in this strike,” noted international affairs and security analyst Mark Sleboda, adding, “We can just refer to Kiev regime officials – aside from the propaganda social media post put out by Zelensky’s wife. According to Reuters, … Volodymyr Zelensky was saying ‘the strike damaged a building of the Military Institute of Communications,’” Sleboda said at Sputnik’s Political Misfits program Tuesday.
“Further on, in the same Reuters article: ‘officials did not immediately disclose the identity of the victims, but Ukrainian military bloggers suggested that some might be cadets or mobilized,’” he continued. “I.e., conscripted men undergoing training. Serhiy Beskrestnov, a blogger specializing in communications and electronic warfare, posted a tribute to ‘my signals operator comrades,’ which makes a lot of sense because it is a Military Institute of Communications.”
Even Ukrainian sources, Sleboda noted, have admitted the target of the Russian strike was a military installation. “The truth is that training facilities – military training facilities – are regularly hit on both sides,” said the analyst, recalling a Ukrainian strike on a Russian military training ground in the Lugansk region about a month ago. The attack, Sleboda pointed out, was carried out with US ATACMS missiles which require the direct participation of the United States for the input of targeting information…
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