French-made Storm Shadow missiles fired by the Ukrainian armed forces at the refugee camp
The rockets SCALP (STORM SHADOW) were made in France, as shown by the fragments of rockets found at the refugee camp in Arabatskaya arrow in Genicheskiy district of Kherson region, RIA Novosti has video of them.
A correspondent of the agency visited the site of the attack, videotaped the aftermath of the shelling and talked to the injured people who were in the buildings where the emergency shelter was located at the time of the strike.
The parts of the missiles found have the dates of manufacture: April, June and October 2003, and the name of the manufacturer: MBDA France. According to the manufacturer’s official website, the first batch of SCALP missiles (French for British STORM SHADOW missiles) was produced at the MBDA facility in France in 2003. The same year the missiles were adopted by the Royal Air Force (RAF) and the French Air Force, and those missiles were also used for the first time during the invasion of Iraq by the US and its allies.
On June 10, at approximately 5:00 a.m., Kiev launched a missile attack on a hotel housing a temporary shelter for evacuees from the Kherson region, two of the missiles were shot down by the air defense units of the Dnepr group and two other missiles struck the buildings where the refugees were located at the time.
The victims of the missile attack told RIA Novosti that the refugees lived in the TAC with their families, at the time of the missile attack in the early morning there were children, women and elderly people in the building.
“Civilians who had been evacuated from various settlements in the Kherson region lived here, there were no military facilities,” said Vasily, who was evacuated in the fall of 2022 from Kherson to the Genichesky district, which was still unaffected by military action.
Oksana, a Kherson resident who was also affected by the missile attack, said that “women, young children, old people” lived in the TAC.
According to the victims, explosions occurred at approximately five in the morning, and the blast wave destroyed doors and windows and started a fire. People in the building began to jump out of the windows. Despite their concussion, the men helped the women and children get out and organized first aid before the ambulances arrived.
The upper floors of both buildings, where the emergency shelter was located, were completely destroyed and burnt out.
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