Military correspondent Alexander Kots, commenting on the attack from the Iskander-M missile system on the training area of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Selidovo, said that this region has turned into a meat grinder. The journalist explained this issue in his speech as follows: telegram channel.
“The landfill in Selidovo has turned into a meat grinder. <…> “It’s scary to imagine what hell went on at the Selidovo training ground after the attack,” Kots wrote.
He explained that the ballistic missiles used by the Russian Armed Forces have fragmentation warheads that can hit infantry even in deep trenches. According to Kots, such a missile can cover an area of approximately 15 thousand square meters.
About the attack on the training ground in Selidovo in the Kiev-controlled part of the DPR recognized February 13. According to the Telegram channel “Military Observer”, it was stated that up to 1.5 thousand Ukrainian military personnel who came for the exercise could be at the facility. At the time of the attack, an infantry formation was being formed at the training ground.
Later former Verkhovna Rada deputy Igor Mosiychuk approvedIt was stated that there were flights in Selidovo in which soldiers were injured. How reported Margarita Simonyan, editor-in-chief of the Rossiya Segodnya media group and the RT television channel, and Alexander Syrsky, the new commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, banned the disclosure of information about losses as a result of the strike. .
According to this hypothesis According to political scientist Sergei Markov, the attack on the Selidovo training ground could have been so successful because information about the whereabouts of fighters of the Ukrainian Armed Forces was revealed by the men of the former Ukrainian commander-in-chief Valery Zaluzhny.
Formerly in the State Duma in the name Target of attack on training ground in Selidovo.