{"id":262331,"date":"2022-12-13T08:28:30","date_gmt":"2022-12-13T08:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=262331"},"modified":"2022-12-15T08:07:21","modified_gmt":"2022-12-15T08:07:21","slug":"ukrainian-strike-hits-russian-barracks-in-occupied-melitopol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=262331","title":{"rendered":"Ukrainian strike hits Russian barracks in occupied Melitopol"},"content":{"rendered":"

Introduction<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Melitopol is in the Zaporozhye region, which was officially declared part of Russia in early October, along with Kherson Region and the Donetsk and Lugansk People\u2019s Republics, after voters in these regions voted overwhelmingly to rejoin the Russian Federation in public referendums.<\/p>\n

So you can safely ignore the Guardian\u2019s mealy-mouthed description of Melitopol being under Russian occupation. As far as Russia and most of Melitopol\u2019s residents are concerned it is part of Russia.<\/p>\n

The Guardian\u2019s misrepresentation is bad enough because it obscures the fact that the rocket attack amounts to an attack on Russia itself. However, making matters even worse is the fact that the attack was carried out using U.S. supplied HIMARS rocket launchers.<\/p>\n

To put that in perspective: imagine if Russia was supplying missiles to Mexican insurgents who were claiming part of Texas belonged to Mexico. You can imagine the uproar in the U.S. media if that were to happen.<\/p>\n

Well, this amounts to the same thing but for one crucial element that the Guardian omits to mention and which may make matters even worse.<\/p>\n

That crucial element is who was operating the HIMARS launchers that targeted Melitopol? Were they Ukrainian troops? Or were they as others have suggested Western \u201csecurity contractors\u201d?<\/p>\n

As Brian Berletic has explained, it takes months to properly train soldiers to operate a HIMARS system accurately. Making it more than likely that Western mercenaries launched the rockets that struck Melitopol on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

So, in effect we have Western \u201csecurity contractors\u201d launching U.S. supplied rockets at a town whose inhabitants and Moscow consider to be part of Russia.<\/p>\n

If this doesn\u2019t seem like it has the potential to escalate into something much bigger then I don\u2019t know what does. Although you might not realise the potential magnitude of what\u2019s unfolding from the following Guardian report. Ed.<\/p>\n

Ukrainian strike hits Russian barracks in occupied Melitopol<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Peter Beaumont<\/a> in Pokrovsk \u2013 The Guardian Dec 12, 2022<\/h2>\n

Ukraine has attacked a barracks in the Russian-occupied city of Melitopol with some Ukrainian sources claiming scores of Russian casualties.<\/p>\n

According to witnesses 10 explosions were heard, although some of those may have been from Russian anti-aircraft systems. Ukrainian officials claimed scores of Russian dead and injured while Russia<\/a> conceded a handful of casualties.<\/p>\n

Video footage posted on social media showed what was claimed to be a Russian barracks in the southern city engulfed in a fierce blaze with some claiming the site was being used by the Wagner mercenary group.<\/p>\n

Another video showed rescue workers in the ruins with several bodies visible.<\/p>\n

The site, a former resort and hotel complex next to a church in the city known as the Hunter\u2019s Halt, was being used as a barracks with most of the casualties apparently in a mess hall when it was hit.<\/p>\n

The strike on Melitopol \u2013 reportedly with Himars rockets \u2013 was one of several overnight on Russian bases. Explosions were also reported overnight in the Russian occupied Crimea including Sevastopol and Simferopol.<\/p>\n

A senior official in eastern Ukraine said on Sunday that Ukrainian forces had attacked a hotel where members of Russia\u2019s private Wagner military group were based, leading to \u201csignificant losses\u201d.<\/p>\n

Serhiy Haidai, governor of the Russian-occupied Luhansk region, said forces launched a strike on Saturday on a hotel in the town of Kadiivka, west of the region\u2019s main centre of Luhansk. Photos posted on Telegram channels showed a building largely reduced to rubble. \u201cA huge number of those who were there died.\u201d<\/p>\n

Russia\u2019s defence ministry was not immediately available for comment and his claims could not be verified.<\/p>\n

Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Ukrainian rocket strike on Melitopol, which voted overwhelmingly in September to rejoin the Russian Federation, takes on a dangerous new significance when one considers the facts glossed over or omitted by the Guardian <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":262333,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[91,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-262331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-russia","category-ukraine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=262331"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":262353,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262331\/revisions\/262353"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/262333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=262331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=262331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=262331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}