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When the media generally reported that the counteroffensive of the Ukrainian army in the past few days was not effective and the battlefield results were limited, the situation seemed to have changed again. According to surging news reports, the secretary of the Ukrainian State Security Committee Alexei Danilov recently began to show off his victories, revealing that the counteroffensive of the Ukrainian army in recent days has been "extremely effective" and achieved the main goal of destroying the resources of the Russian army.
(The Ukrainian counteroffensive is still ongoing)
It is reported that Danilov said that the maximum destruction of the personnel and hardware of the Russian army has become the primary task of the Ukrainian army, equipment, fuel warehouses, military vehicles, command posts, artillery and air defense units are all targets of the Ukrainian army, and judging from relevant reports, the Ukrainian army has even ignored the lives and deaths of civilians in order to achieve this goal.
Reference news reports that in the early morning of July 5, local time, the city of Makeyevka in eastern Ukraine was attacked by the Ukrainian army, and someone filmed the explosion site with a mobile phone, and the video provided by the Ukrainian Strategic Communications Center showed that after the shelling, a huge fireball rose, and then a deafening explosion sounded, accompanied by "mushroom cloud" smoke, which can be seen even thousands of meters away.
(GIF: Explosion site)
The Donetsk People's Republic complained that it was the Ukrainian army that launched a fierce attack on residential areas and hospital buildings in Makeyevka, and most residents of Makeyevka and Donetsk felt the shock wave of the explosion.
The damage caused by the shelling was severe, with at least 40 residential buildings and dozens of social facilities damaged, including several medical institutions. Among them, the surgical ward and operating room of the city's Second Hospital were severely damaged, such as windows were shattered, related equipment was damaged and unusable, and they had to transfer patients to other hospitals.
(Explosion site)
At the same time, the shelling also caused a lot of casualties, and the Russian-appointed Donetsk regional administrator Denis Pushilin revealed that one civilian had died, a 62-year-old man, and 36 civilians were injured to varying degrees, including a boy and a girl, aged 7 and 2, respectively. At present, the relevant search and rescue work is still ongoing, and it cannot be ruled out that the number of casualties will continue to increase.
(Dennis Pushilin)
Makeyevka is currently under the control of the Russian army, and there is information that such a serious accident was caused by the Ukrainian army blowing up the Russian army's ammunition depot. The report quoted a Russian military blogger as saying that on the same day, the Ukrainian army used the "Haimas" rocket artillery provided by the United States to launch an attack on a local Russian logistics supply point, and the result directly detonated the ammunition depot, causing the explosion to spread to civilian areas.
(Hymas rocket launcher)
That is to say, it was originally a contest between the Russian and Ukrainian armies, but dozens of civilians were injured or even killed, and since the outbreak of the conflict, many similar things have happened, and Russia and Ukraine have repeatedly accused each other of shelling civilian areas.
And what's worse, the Ukrainian side does not seem to plan to step on the brakes on this road, Danilov directly said that for the Ukrainian army, now sabotage the war and recapture the territory is equally important, the more destruction the Ukrainian army engages, the more territory will be liberated, judging from his statement, as long as the Russian army can be defeated, even if the Ukrainian territory is turned into scorched earth, even if it pulls civilians to accompany the burial. If both Russia and Ukraine refuse to stop, similar tragedies will only be repeated.