MOSCOW, April 10 (Prensa Latina) Images with the serial number of the rocket that fell near the train station in the city of Kramatorsk, Donetsk province, confirmed the Ukrainian origin of the projectile, according to the local press.
The RT television channel explained that this data makes it possible to identify which country owns the weapon that struck on the morning of March 8.
Noting that journalists from Italian broadcaster La7 were able to record the projectile on Friday night, he showed it in a report that showed it was the serial number 9М79-1 version of the Tochka-U tactical missile Number Sh91579. (Ш91579, in Russian).
Televisión Española (TVE) correspondent Víctor García Guerrero, who is in Kramatorsk, also published a photo of the rocket with its data, which, he said, allows “identifying the arsenal of the country to which it belongs. “
Donetsk-based Union channel assured that the missile’s serial number indicated that this Tochka-U was “in the register of the Armed Forces of Ukraine,” and denounced that the Kiev army had already used missiles of the same series to carry attacks on the self-proclaimed People’s Republics of Donetsk (DPR) and Lugansk (LPR).
The Russian Air Defense Forces on March 18 shot down a Tochka-U projectile, serial number “Sh915516” (“Ш915516”) over the town of Melitopol, Zaporozhye province, of the same series used in the attack on Kramatorsk, said Union.
So far, the Kiev authorities have not commented on the public appearance of the images with the data identifying the projectile that hit Kramatorsk.
Since the incident, both the DPR authorities and Moscow have denounced that the attack was carried out by Ukrainian forces and have asserted that the Tochka-U are not in their arsenal, while Kyiv has insisted that the city was ambushed by Russian troops was attacked.
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