VocativA resident of Kramatorsk, Ukraine, captured a two-minute bombardment of the town, showing 24 separate explosions pummeling homes and buildings. Separatist forces launched the rockets as part of their attacks on the Ukrainian government’s military headquarters.
Three were killed and dozens wounded, Ukrainian news reports. The terrifying video shows dozens of rockets landing in a Kramatorsk residential neighborhood. The woman behind the camera can be heard screaming, “Boys!” Perhaps she was calling to her own children crying in the background, or perhaps to the soldiers at the military headquarters where the shelling hit.
“They fired at the airfield!” she says. “They got their target. Who fired?”
After Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said Tuesday that rocket strikes had hit the military headquarters in Kramatorsk and a nearby residential area, the pro-Russian rebels denied they were the culprit.
Until today Kramatorsk was considered so safe that it was one of the places where the Ukrainian government gave journalists accreditations
— Daniel Sandford (@BBCDanielS) February 10, 2015
“There were no strikes by us from any kind of weapon in the direction of Kramatorsk,” a representative of Donetsk People’s Republic told RIA Novosti.
ok, #Smerch, 300mm. #Kramatorsk.
Not #Grad or #Uragan. pic.twitter.com/KARPhQcafQ— English Lugansk (@loogunda) February 10, 2015
http://www.vocativ.com/world/ukraine-world/ukraine-rocket-attack-video/
The government in Kiev are insane, I can see them having done this to their own people in order to brink US, British and French troops into action against the rebels.
That would provoke an armed response from Russia of course.
Fortunately France and Germany have gone cool on the idea of supporting the kiev government. It dawned on them that in the event of a big war they’d be in the front line.