“The survivors fled”
Igor Konashenkov said at a briefing on July 7 that Ukrainian troops “against the backdrop of military failures and mass withdrawal” that the Ukrainian authorities had decided to “attempt to symbolically deliver the flag to Zmeiny Island” in the Black Sea.
“At around 5 o’clock, several Ukrainian soldiers got off the island from a motorboat and took pictures with the flag. A plane of the Russian Aerospace Forces immediately launched an attack with high-precision missiles on Zmeiny Island, as a result of which part of the Ukrainian military personnel was destroyed.
“The survivors fled towards the settlement of Primorskoye, Odessa region,” he said.
Earlier, Izvestia referred to the Ukrainian edition of Strana. reported About the landing of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the island of the Serpents and the placement of the Ukrainian flag on its territory.
Attached to the note are photos that allegedly confirm that the Ukrainian flag is now flying on the island.
On July 4, Natalya Gumenyuk, head of the press center of the “South” operational command of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, said that the Ukrainian army had planted the national flag of the country on Zmeiny Island.
“The military operation has been completed and now the area is back under Ukraine’s jurisdiction,” he told reporters. But on the same day, Gumenyuk announced that in fact, the Ukrainian flag was not set on the island, but simply dropped from a helicopter.
“Wait until the soldiers arrive,” he told CNN.
On June 30, Igor Konashenkov said that the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation left Zmeiny Island on June 30 “as a step of goodwill”. According to him, the soldiers “completed their mission on the island” and therefore withdrew from the island.
“Thus, it was demonstrated to the world public that the Russian Federation did not interfere with the UN’s efforts to organize a humanitarian corridor for the export of agricultural products from the territory of Ukraine,” the representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense said. .
“This decision will not allow Kiev to speculate on the impending food crisis,” he said. Ukraine will no longer be able to talk about the impossibility of exporting grain “due to Russia’s complete control of the northwestern part of the Black Sea.”
“Now the word is up to the Ukrainian side, which still has not cleaned the Black Sea coast near its shores, including the port waters,” Konashenkov said.
“For political PR”
On May 29, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced on his Telegram channel that he dismissed the head of the SBU department for the Kharkiv region of Ukraine, Roman Dudin, “for not working to protect the city”, but “just thinking”. himself.”
The next day, Dudin said he did not agree with the decision to resign and was ready to take the polygraph test. He also apologized to the President. On its Facebook page (the company that owns Meta is recognized as an extremist organization), the defense of Kharkov summarized his version of the events. According to him, his only flaw is “handing out guns to people on February 24”.
Dudin concluded his “performances” for the president, also referring to the “pole” that the Ukrainian military brought to the Russian border in early May and then “shamefully abandoned”. The dismissed head of the SBU department added that this “action” led to the loss of dead and wounded among the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
He was referring to a video posted on the Internet in mid-May showing how soldiers of the 127th Regional Defense Brigade allegedly erected a post on the border of the Kharkov region with Russia. Then they took pictures with the pole. And the Ukrainian president praised them for their “heroic” behavior in a special video message.
Former SBU officer stressed
Everything about the “Russian propaganda lying about the border column” turned out to be true, because as a result of the placement of the column, four Ukrainian soldiers were killed and three more were wounded, and the column was abandoned by the rest. Army of the Armed Forces of Ukraine while fleeing.
“Concerning the circle of the local political elite of the security forces and law enforcement officers, who were invited to a meeting (with Zelensky), I declare that, using only their positions, they actually have nothing to do with the defense of the city and the region. for political PR,” Dudin concluded.
Source: Gazeta
