The collapse of the Odessa Cathedral sparked a war of words between Ukraine and Russia. The Orthodox landmark collapsed on the night of its fourth day after Russian forces carried out four rounds of airstrikes on the southern Ukrainian city of Odessa.
Ukraine** immediately put the blame on Russia, claiming that it was the Russian army's air strikes that led to the destruction of the Odessa Cathedral, which shows that the Russian army's attacks were indiscriminate, even civilian facilities and historical and cultural heritage. Ukraine** Zelensky even vowed to take revenge on Russia's "evil deeds".
UNESCO condemned the incident, urging Russia to "fulfill its obligations under international law" and stop "attacks on cultural heritage".
The Russian side denied it, and its Ministry of Defense issued a statement emphasizing that the Russian army's strikes targeted to avoid civilian facilities and historical and cultural heritage in the city of Odessa, and it was impossible to attack the Odessa Cathedral.
In fact, the Odessa Cathedral was indeed bombed by Ukraine itself.
That night, some witnesses filmed the scene of the **, showing that the Russian army launched a missile attack on a number of targets in Odessa, and the Ukrainian anti-aircraft missiles were not completely intercepted, one of the anti-aircraft missiles malfunctioned after launch, and did not fly high enough, so it fell directly and smashed on the Odessa Cathedral.
The results are clear at a glance, the Ukrainian army's air defense failed, the missile launch failed, and he blew up his own church, Ukraine** wanted to blame Russia in order to cover up his mistakes, but I didn't expect someone to shoot **, and **The content clearly recorded the process of the Ukrainian army's air defense failure, Zelansky's blame plan was quickly exposed, and he lost face.
In fact, it is not the first time that Ukraine has made a fool of itself in this kind of thing, for example, before the Russian army attacked Kyiv at night with "Dagger" missiles, the Ukrainian army said that it successfully intercepted all Russian missiles with "Patriot" air defense missiles, including "Dagger", and the next day the "Patriot" position was blown up by the "Dagger" The real shot ** spread around the Internet, for which the Ukrainian intelligence department urgently dispatched to arrest several Kyiv citizens who released ** on the spot and deleted it overnight**.
According to Moscow Mayor Sobyanin, at around 4 a.m. on July 24, the Ukrainian army launched another attack on Moscow with drones, but Moscow's defense system was fully prepared, and two Ukrainian drones crashed directly under the interference of the Russian army's electronic warfare system, causing no damage.
It is likely that this is Zelensky's angry retaliation after his lies were exposed, but with the improvement of the Russian army's defense system, it may be impossible for this level of air strikes to achieve results.