harry potter castle odessa russian missile
In addition to causing a fire in this castle, which is located on the shores of the Black Sea in the tourist district of Arcadia (Odessa) and belongs to a university foundation, The cluster bomb explosions damaged other buildings in the area.
“He stroke was carried out with a Iskander ballistic missile with cluster munition in the warhead. Is about indiscriminate weaponryreads a statement from the Ukrainian Prosecutor’s Office, which adds that metal fragments and parts of the missile were found within a 1.5 kilometer radius.
The Prosecutor’s Office adds that “there is reason to believe that the decision to use this weaponry” in the attack by Russia sought to “kill as many Ukrainian civilians as possible.”
harry potter castle odessa russian missile
Along with the statement, the Prosecutor’s Office has distributed a video in which the explosions of the multiple submunitions or bomblets to which the cluster munition owes its name can be seen.
The cluster munition It is usually used to destroy multiple targets located a certain distance apart from each other. This type of ammunition is usually used to hit tank or infantry formations and damage or knock out the largest number of armored vehicles or combatants scattered in a certain area.
According to Odessa military expert Alexander Kovalenko, it is the first time Russia has used cluster munitions against the city. “The idea of this type of ammunition is to hit a wide area, which is what happened yesterday in Odessa, only the hit was not directed at military targets but at civilian targets,” Kovalenko wrote on his social networks.
