PUTIN'S WAR: "And then came the immediate retaliatory strike by the Russian forces!"

PUTIN'S WAR: "And then came the immediate retaliatory strike by Russian forces!" After an explosion in the southern Russian city of Taganrog on the Sea of ​​Azov, Moscow blamed Kyiv for the attack. "The Kyiv regime carried out a terrorist attack (...) against the residential infrastructure of the city of Taganrog in the Rostov Region," the Russian Defense Ministry announced on Telegram on Friday. Russian air defense intercepted the rocket, but debris fell. On Friday afternoon, Russian authorities reported the impact near a cafe in the center of Taganrog. According to the governor of the Rostov Region, Vasily Golubev, 15 people were injured. Nine of them were taken to hospitals. According to Moscow, the Ukrainians allegedly converted the S-200 air defense system into an offensive weapon and fired it. This could not initially be verified. Golubev later reported a second rocket fired over the Azov district not far from Taganrog. The debris is said to have fallen in an uninhabited area and caused no damage. The Russian statements could not be independently verified. The Investigative Committee in Moscow initiated criminal proceedings for terrorism following the Taganrog strike. The agency's press release reported 13 injuries. Several residential and administrative buildings were also damaged. Nine injured in rocket strike in Ukrainian city of Dnipro Meanwhile, at least nine people were injured in a rocket strike in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro, which has a population of one million, a few hours later, according to Serhy Lysak, the head of the Dnipropetrovsk regional administration. Authorities had previously reported only three injuries. "Russian terrorists targeted a high-rise building," Ukrainian Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko wrote in his Telegram channel on Friday evening. According to President Volodymyr Zelensky, in addition to the high-rise building, the building of the Ukrainian security service (SBU) was also hit. Videos show severe damage. The relatively low number of injured was explained by Ukrainian media by the fact that many apartments in the high-rise building had not yet been occupied. Air raid sirens were also in effect in other regions of Ukraine, including the capital Kyiv. Media also reported explosions in the Sumy region in the northeast of the country and in the southeastern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhia. Russian media had previously reported that the Ukrainian missile aimed at Taganrog had been fired from the region. Russia invaded neighboring Ukraine 17 months ago and has since regularly targeted cities and towns in the hinterland with missile and drone attacks. In one of the worst attacks, on Dnipro, a residential building was hit in January 2023. More than 40 people were killed. #ukraine #russia #war #weltnetzreporter Subscribe to the WELT Netzreporter Channel    / dienetzreporter   WELT News Channel    / weltvideotv   WELT DOKU Channel    / weltdoku   WELT Podcast Channel    / weltpodcast   The WELT News Livestream http://bit.ly/2fwuMPg The top news on WELT.de http://bit.ly/2rQQD9Q The media library on WELT.de http://bit.ly/2Iydxv8 WELT News Channel on Instagram https://bit.ly/IGWELTTV WELT on Instagram http://bit.ly/2X1M7Hk On a personal note: Due to the high volume of irrelevant and offensive posts, we are currently unable to accept any more comments. Thank you for your understanding - the WELT team This video was created in 2023