Ukraine has nothing to do with it: Podolyak explained Russian versions of the collapse of a house in Belgorod

In Belgorod, Russia, on May 12, an explosion occurred in a ten-story building, causing the entrance to collapse. Russian propagandists immediately took advantage of the opportunity and said that it was first a Ukrainian missile, then ATACMS or Tochka-U, and at the end they added that it was their air defense system that worked that way.

Adviser to the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Mikhail Podolyak told 24 Channel that Ukraine has nothing to do with to what happened in Belgorod with the bombing of a house. This is an internal problem of Russia – and not the only one, because high-explosive bombs or missiles that the enemy uses to attack the territory of Ukraine fall on the territory of Russia, including the Belgorod region, and lead to destruction there.

Trying to distract attention

Mikhail Podolyak noted that Russia is giving out such a large number of different versions because it cannot in any way admit on the domestic market that the explosion in a high-rise building in Belgorod is the consequences of a very bad type of weapon that the Russians use in the war.

Russians do not want to take the blame for what they do. In addition, they are trying to divert the attention of international communities through these versions,” said the adviser to the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine.

When MH-17 was shot down, during For a long time there were many different versions of how this could have happened, although everyone understood that the Russian Buk air defense system had worked. But as a result of these versions, the Russians kept the media space in a speculative state for a long time, constantly throwing out more and more new assumptions.

Russia's attempts to link the terrorist attack in Crocus City to Ukraine and justify itself in the eyes of the international community also had no success, and now they are trying to spread the theme of the Belgorod region, that is, the bombing of a section of the house. But this will also not affect the international communities, which will end all these conversations after some time,” noted Mikhail Podolyak.

This will happen because after more than two years of war, global the political and information space understands what is happening both in Belgorod and in Crocus City. Therefore, these propaganda attempts to influence certain processes do not matter.

But regarding the Russian domestic market, it makes no sense to even say that they will look at everything objectively and ask the right questions. They will continue to say that Ukraine is waging the war wrong.

No legal consequences for Ukraine

Mikhail Podolyak highlights three key conclusions :

1. As part of a defensive war, Ukraine can inflict any attacks on any Russian infrastructure.
2. Russia is trying to attack Ukrainian territory and is doing this from its territory, in particular from the city of Belgorod, simultaneously striking at its social infrastructure.
3. Only the Russian side as the aggressor country is legally guilty of Russia’s war against Ukraine. Therefore, everything that happens in Belgorod has no legal consequences for Ukraine.

Explosion in the house of Belgorod: what is known

• On the morning of May 12 at 11:21 in Belgorod, an explosion occurred in one of the houses on Shchorsa Street, as a result of which The entire entrance to the house collapsed – from the first to the tenth floor. The collapse killed 15 people.
• When rescuers arrived at the scene, the roof of the residential building collapsed on them, trapping them under the rubble. It later turned out that neither the volunteers nor the rescuers were injured as a result of the roof collapse.
• According to the Russians, the house “was damaged by debris,” but the consequences of the explosion in the house could have occurred after actions of the notorious air defense of the invaders, because the enemy often places its systems in residential areas. and to the right, so sometimes in Russia it is difficult to determine whether it is a terrorist attack, negligence or an accident.