Rights groups say the weapon is extremely inaccurate and must not be used in war.
A RIA journalist who witnessed the attack said: “First, there was an explosion from the Hurricane [rocket launcher system], they are usually launched before the Tochka-U to confuse the air defence. There was one explosion (from the Hurricane), then there was firing (air defence systems) … then I saw a flash in the sky, it was clear that it was flying from the side of the Nikolaev [Mykolaiv] region, from the north-west.”
He added that several large explosions followed and that he saw fragments of the Tochka-U on the ground.
The Tochka-U rocket was used in an attack on the Kramatorsk railway station on April 8. At least 57 people died.
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The Tochka-U missiles that struck the Ukrainian city of Kherson were fired from the Nikolayev Region, which is controlled by Ukrainian troops, a Sputnik correspondent saw their flight and the strikes on the city near the television center.
ReplyDeleteEarlier, a Sputnik correspondent reported that the center of Kherson, not far from the television center, was attacked from the positions of Ukrainian troops with Tochka-U and Uragan missiles.
A Russian security source told Sputnik that Ukrainian troops fired three Tochka-U missiles at Kherson, two of them were shot down.