Russians had fire adjuster on site after Pokrovsk attack, says ex-SBU officer
Russia’s strike on the town of Pokrovsk in Donetsk Oblast was a terrorist attack, Ivan Stupak, military expert of the Ukrainian Institute of the Future, and a former employee of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), told Radio NV in an exclusive interview on Aug. 8.
“This is terrorism. This is not just an allegory but a terrorist attack,” Stupak said.
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“When there is a bomb blast in a market in the Middle East… a car explodes, for example, law enforcement officers always cautiously approach the site since there is a high probability that the car, which is 15-20 meters away, is filled with explosives. The terrorists wait at a distance for people to start gathering, carrying out the wounded, and pulling out the dead from under the rubble.
“That’s when the terrorists see that even more people have gathered than during the previous blast, then they activate the second or even the third explosive mechanism.”
This is the tactic the Russians used in Pokrovsk, Stupak said.
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“And I’ll tell you even more: among those people who stood at the site of the tragedy after the first explosion in Pokrovsk, there was at least one fire adjuster from the Russians who also watched what was happening,” Stupak said.
“And then, perhaps, he passed the information on to his supervisors that ‘many people have already gathered, you can strike once again.’ And it happened. In other words, the Russians ‘had their eyes’ on the scene.”
Russia launched two missile strikes at Pokrovsk in Donetsk Oblast on Aug. 7, partially destroying a high-rise residential building.
Seven people were killed in the attack and 67 people were injured, including two children.
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