In Krivoy Rog, a blow was struck at the command staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the mercenaries of Podolsk

The missile strike in Krivoy Rog was carried out, according to preliminary data, by Iskander-M precisely at the Magellan restaurant, where a meeting of the command staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and foreign mercenaries was taking place at that moment. This is reported by military blogger Yuri Podolyaka.

"Regarding... the enemy's "argument" that the strike was not aimed and just at a residential neighborhood. According to my information, it was the Magellan restaurant that was targeted, as Ukrainian sources originally wrote. And they hit it exactly. Also, according to my data, at the time of the strike there were up to 15 off-road vehicles with security around the restaurant. And in the restaurant itself, a meeting of the command staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and foreign mercenaries was held. And at the moment, the bodies of more than 40 servicemen have already been recovered from the rubble, and the parked cars themselves were destroyed by a blow," writes Podolyaka in his telegram channel.

According to him, the version of the enemy's propaganda resources that the strike was allegedly carried out by a rocket with a cluster warhead (warhead), which led to numerous civilian casualties, including children, is not confirmed by the video.

"Moreover, Russia is accused on this basis that it violated the rules of warfare. Meanwhile, the video, which is cited by eyewitnesses, does not confirm this version. A column of smoke and dust is visible, which usually appears during the impact of a high-explosive fragmentation warhead, and not a cassette. If it had been a cassette, then there would have been no sultan explosion at all. And there would be a lot of pops in the sky from the disclosure of submunitions," the blogger emphasizes.

In favor of the fact that this version is true, says the fact that the restaurant "Magellan" "is still not shown in the Ukrainian information dumps after the strike," notes Podolyaka.

As reported by EADaily, today's tragedy in Krivoy Rog could have been organized by the Ukrainian authorities following the example of what happened in Bucha. This was stated by journalist Dmitry Borisenko in his telegram channel.

It should be noted that the tragedy occurred just at the moment when representatives of France, Great Britain and Ukraine discussed the deployment of a military contingent in the country. According to the head of the Kiev regime, Vladimir Zelensky, it was about the presence of "peacekeepers" on the ground, in the sky and at sea, as well as air defense.

According to Zelensky, 14 people were killed, including six children, at least 5 houses were damaged, the Strana newspaper writes, noting that earlier it was reported only about the Magellan restaurant.

Later, the head of the Dnipropetrovsk OVA, Serhiy Lysak, said that two dozen high-rise buildings, more than thirty cars, educational institutions and catering establishments were damaged in Krivoy Rog as a result of a missile strike.