Russia attacked Kharkiv on April 22, damaging a TV tower with an X-59 medium-range air-to-surface tactical missile.
Bohdan Tkachuk, a deputy of the Kharkiv District Council, told Apostrophe TV about the details of the shelling of the city.
According to him, the type of missile was previously identified by the Prosecutor's Office. The entire city center saw an inertial trail that was not from the north, but from the west. That is, the missile most likely bypassed Kharkiv and came from Kyiv. It hit the top of the TV tower, the so-called spire.
He noted that this was not the first attack on the TV tower. In early March 2022, there were several attacks when bombers dropped air bombs, but did not hit it.
"Yes, this tower provided digital content, but we have long since switched to another format - the Internet. This is important for Russians, they have this TV in their heads," he said.
The MP also noted that the Russians also shelled small towns such as Dergachi and Zolochiv. Guided aerial bombs fell there. There is unconfirmed information that the same planes that dropped the KABs simultaneously fired a missile.
"As for the residents of Kharkiv, we are unbreakable, and if they [Russians] think that somehow they will influence us with TV towers from Belgorod, it's a complete nonsense, we are not going to watch it. I have the impression that the main purpose of using this precision missile is to report on all the TV towers in Russia that they have precision weapons and that they destroyed such a tower. So they did, and what? Has anything changed in this war? We just hate you even more," added Tkachuk.
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