It’s now indisputable that the Tochka-U missile was not only fired by the Ukrainians at the Kramatorsk Railway terminal but that it was one a series fired by Ukraine (including Bucha) as the serial numbers found on the missiles are part of a sequence possessed only by the Ukrainian Armed Forces! But crucially, when are the corporate/state media going to tell the truth about the fact that the Ukrainian government slaughtered its own people in order to incriminate the Russians?!
The rocket that hit Kramatorsk Friday is not just Ukrainian.
The first photo shows the serial number of one of the Tochka-U missiles that flew yesterday to Kramatorsk and was shot down. The one on which it was written “For the children.”
On the second is the serial number of Tochka-U, which hit the settlement on February 2, 2015. Alchevsk (LNR).
The serial numbers are not just identical, they differ by one digit: 9M79-1 Sh91565 and 9M79-1 Sh91579.
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This is yet another irrefutable proof that it was Ukraine that struck Kramatorsk yesterday.
This is a follow on to yesterday’s Tochka-U missile strike on the Kramatorsk railway station. Russia no longer has Tochka missiles while the Ukraine, Belarus and several other states still use them.
There is now additional evidence that the missile was fired by Ukrainian forces. The facts do not matter in ‘western’ media who stick to whatever story they are told to produce. Still, I do believe that facts matter at least in the long term and that there is a historic value in documenting them.
The Tochka-U is a tactical missile with a maximum range of some 120 kilometers. It is typically fired from a transporter, erector, launcher vehicle (TEL) with little need of preparations.
The TEL vehicle for the Tochka is a six wheeled BAZ 5921 /5922. These are amphibious floating hull chassis. The picture below shows a BAZ TEL in parade mode with a Tochka missile slightly erected. In the normal transport mode the missile lies horizontally under a protective roof.
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There were several claims of such vehicles being seen in Belarus or with Russian forces in Ukraine. But not every six wheeled BAZ vehicle can be said to be a Tochka missile TEL or Tochka transporter. There are various look alike variants of the vehicle with radar or communication equipment or simply used as transporters or ferries for all kind of goods.
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The Tochka missile, below in a firing position, consists of a rocket engine, four fins and grids to direct its course, a solid fuel compartment and a warhead. A complete missile weighs about 2,000 kilogram.
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There are various warhead types available which weigh about 500 kilograms each.
The warhead which was used in Kramatorsk is a fragmentation one with 20 sub-munitions (gray) each with some 7.5 kilograms of explosives.
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These sub-munitions get expelled and explode while still in the air and each one creates some 800 fragments. The warhead thus leaves no hole in the ground but expels a huge number of deadly metal fragments at high speed over a relative large area. The Tochka missiles are not very precise. They have a circular error probability (CEP) of some 150 meters. They are so called area weapons to be used against concentrations of infantry or unarmored vehicles.
After being fired the rocket engine propels the warhead towards is destination. Shortly before the impact the warhead separates from the missile or booster section and continues its path while the rocket engine shuts down. Having lost its drive and aerodynamic tip the booster section will then tumble to the ground. If everything works as designed the booster section always falls short of the warhead section.
Which brings us to the scene in Kramatorsk. Several pictures from the scene show the booster section of the missile.
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The place where it landed was geo-located as being near a parking space some 60 meter west-southwest of the railway station. Here is the Google maps view of the railway station area. The warhead explosions happened on the east side of the station over the departure platform.
The location of the booster debris and where the explosion happened allows one to point out the trajectory from where the missile was fired. I have checked the locations depicted below and found them to be correct.
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North is to the top. The station is encircled and the point is where the booster section landed. The arrow shows the trajectory the missile must have taken.
Oh, the map is annotated in Russian and you don’t trust Russian sources? Well, here is the New York Times posting a similar map.
Additionally, the bellicist Mainstream Media totally supporting the Ukrainian regime seem to think that all the bombs, missiles and other weaponry that NATO have been supplying Zelensky’s forces only destroy Russian soldiers and tanks; while the destruction of buildings, infrastructure and deaths of civilians must only be caused by the Russians. Ah, no, it doesn’t work like that. –-Eds
https://waikanaewatch.org/2022/04/10/evidence-that-ukraine-fired-the-missile-which-killed-dozens-in-kramatorsk/
