The attack suffered 15 kilometers from the large port city on the Black Sea revived an old fracture line within the Ukrainian population.
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“No photos! Who are you? Who allowed you to photograph my house?”, scream in turn two middle-aged women, walking straight on the photographer of the world. One of them has a scarlet face of anger. Their house, located in the village of Datchne, 15 km north of Odessa, the large port city of Ukraine on the Black Sea has been half destroyed by a bombing twenty-four hours earlier. Tuesday 1 er March, around noon, two explosions shook the 8,500 inhabitants, aneanted Cafe Angelika, raised several roofs, fucked dozens of brick walls, cut the power lines, gas pipes , torn a handful of trees. Two people were injured. A man is dead: the custodian of the Military Base of the Odessa Marine Bodies, Deceased from a cardiac arrest.
At the seventh day of the war led by Russia on Ukrainian territory, the dating military base constitutes a target of choice for the Russian projectiles. She has already been twice by cruise missiles on February 24, at the first hours of the offensive. “We are constantly attacked,” confirms Edik, 23, volunteer soldier of the village, to whom his mother has just brought a bag of food. For a handful of inhabitants, however, which reside in the houses closest to the base, rue de l’army, the origin of the strikes can not be Russian. It’s inconceivable. The attack revived an old fracture line in the Ukrainian population.
“You want to do something? Rebuild my house! I have a son of 8 months, give him a roof!”, Glapit with a sugrous voice the lady with a scarlet face. The other woman intervenes: “What are you going to write again? That the Russians have shot us, ours, it’s ours, the Ukrainians, who shot”, she enrage, whendy A swear every three words. It refers to the mint the base. Refuses to give his name. Because “the media … are all lying”. Then she disappears as dry, flanked by her companion, behind a deformed fence.
“had to cause Russia”
Their neighbors Youuri, 61, lives at just 50 meters from the base. He too is convinced that the “Grad” (rockets conceived in the Soviet era, employed by the Russian and Ukrainian armies) were drawn from the base, not by Russian forces. This former retired military says Ignore why the Ukrainian army would shoot over his civilian neighbors, but strives to convince by tracing with his arm a ballistic trajectory from the north. It seems to ignore that multiple rocket launchers have a minimum range of more than one kilometer. A rocket pierced the roof of a dependency of its house in a near vertical trajectory, suggesting a long distance shot. Yuri persists. He remembers two explosions, then shots burst just after. “The military [Ukrainians] pulled so that we could not go out and see what was going on, they removed all the traces of missiles. That’s the truth!”
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