{"id":54883,"date":"2024-07-10T19:09:11","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T14:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/?p=54883"},"modified":"2024-07-10T19:09:11","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T14:39:11","slug":"kremlin-responds-to-kiev-hospital-attack-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/54883\/kremlin-responds-to-kiev-hospital-attack-allegations\/","title":{"rendered":"Kremlin responds to Kiev hospital attack allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Peskov stressed that Russia does not strike civilian targets\u201d\u00a0and that all strikes carried out by the Russian military are exclusively aimed at\u00a0\u201ccritical infrastructure facilities and military targets that are somehow related to the regime\u2019s military potential, RT reported.<\/p>\n<p>Regarding Ukraine\u2019s accusations that Moscow intentionally hit the hospital in Kiev, Peskov pointed to the official statement by the Russian Defense Ministry, which\u00a0\u201cabsolutely rules out that there were strikes on any civilian targets. It states that we are talking about the fall of an anti-missile.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Russian Defense Ministry reported on Monday that it had conducted a large-scale attack using long-range high-precision weapons to strike Ukrainian military industry facilities and aviation bases. The attack was said to be in response to Kiev\u2019s continued attempts to cause damage to Russian energy and economic facilities.<\/p>\n<p>The ministry stated that all the intended targets were hit and rejected Kiev\u2019s claims of Russian missiles striking civilian facilities as\u00a0\u201cabsolutely untrue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNumerous published photos and video footage from Kiev clearly confirm the fact of destruction due to the fall of a Ukrainian air defense missile launched from an anti-aircraft missile system within the city,\u201d\u00a0the ministry said.<\/p>\n<p>It also accused Kiev of attempting similar\u00a0\u201chysterics\u201d\u00a0in the past, especially before large international summits, such as the NATO gathering in Washington that kicked off on Tuesday. The Russian Defense Ministry suggested that the incident at Okhmatdet is being used by the Ukrainian authorities to ensure continued funding and the continuation of the conflict.<\/p>\n<p>Russia\u2019s ambassador to the US, Anatoly Antonov, has also suggested that the hospital tragedy is seen by Kiev\u2019s Western backers as a\u00a0\u201cperfect gift\u201d\u00a0to justify further escalation of the conflict and the continuation of hostilities.<\/p>\n<p>The Western press is\u00a0\u201cwhipping up hysterics\u201d\u00a0and hiding relevant facts about the tragedy, Antonov claimed, including Moscow\u2019s assessment that the incident was caused by a Ukrainian air defense missile.<\/p>\n<p>Pro-Kiev media outlets have claimed that the weapon that struck the hospital was a Russian air-launched Kh-101 cruise missile. However, others have argued that the projectile, which can apparently be seen in a video filmed from a distance by a witness, was probably an AIM120 fired by a NASAM missile system or an interceptor fired by the MIM-104 Patriot missile system. Western donors have provided Ukraine with this type of US-developed weapon.<\/p>\n<p>SD\/PR<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Peskov stressed that Russia does not strike civilian targets\u201d\u00a0and that all strikes carried out by the Russian military are exclusively aimed at\u00a0\u201ccritical infrastructure facilities and military targets that are somehow related to the regime\u2019s military potential, RT reported. Regarding Ukraine\u2019s accusations that Moscow intentionally hit the hospital in Kiev, Peskov [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[7103,7100,7110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-accidents-en","category-international-en","category-politic-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}