Name: WARNING GRAPHIC!! 20 killed & over 36 civilians injured By Ukrainian cluster bomb
Uploaded: 2022-03-18T15:39:16+00:00
Duration: 13 min 54 s
Description: WARNING GRAPHIC!! 20 killed & over 36 civilians injured By Ukrainian cluster bomb The Tochka-U system is currently being used by only one army - the Ukrainian military. Kiev has denied responsibility

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WARNING GRAPHIC!! 20 killed & over 36 civilians injured By Ukrainian cluster bomb

The Tochka-U system is currently being used by only one army - the Ukrainian military.

Kiev has denied responsibility for the attack, which has been barely reported by Western media, insisting it was “unmistakably a Russian rocket” and that “there’s no point talking about it.” However, reports from the ground suggest that the downed missile was a Tochka-U rocket, commonly used by the Ukrainian military.

This type of missile, dubbed SS-21 Scara by NATO, is a mobile launch system developed by the Soviet Union in the 1970s. Russia has phased out its use, in favor of the newer and far superior 9K270 Iskander, which was introduced in the mid 2000s.

RT spoke to local lawyer and war crime investigator, Ivan Kopyl, who’s been working in the area collecting evidence and testimonies from the people who witnessed the attack. Since 2015, he has been attached to the local public organization “Spravedlivaya Zashita” and some of his previous findings were sent to the European Court of Human Rights in 2020.

Kopyl says that there is no doubt in his mind that the strike was carried out with a Tochka-U missile, and that there is plenty of evidence to support his claim.

“We went to the area of yesterday’s strike to observe the impact sites. The warhead of a Tochka-U missile contains 50 cassettes of cluster munitions,” he explained, on Tuesday. “We managed to find 28 traces of cluster explosions on the soil.”

he maintains that it’s undeniable that the rocket was being aimed at civilians.

“I think it is absolutely clear that the missile was aimed at a densely-populated civilian area where there were certainly no military targets present. Because the rocket hit Pushkin Boulevard - the central street in Donetsk - where people go for walks and where there are only a bunch of cafes. The courtyard of an art museum was damaged from the back. There was also damage to a yard where there are two kindergartens - there were several craters there. And then, of course, there was damage to that street near the bank where there is always a queue of mostly elderly people who are trying to get their pensions from the ATM.”