Since the start of the full-scale invasion, russia has re-struck areas it had just struck 36 times to harm rescue workers, medics and other civilians.
This is stated in the research of the non-governmental organization Truth Hounds.
Between January 1 and August 31, 2024, the Truth Hounds scored 20 double hits. This is more than in all of 2022 and 2023 combined. These were strikes on Kharkiv on March 1 and 17, on the village of Natalivka in the Zaporizhzhia Region on March 18, on Dnipro on April 10, on Bilytske in the Donetsk Region on August 14, and on Ladyzhyn in the Vinnytsia Region on October 11. In 2023, there were at least ten such strikes.
Truth Hounds map
Truth Hounds found that there were more double strikes when Dmitry Klimenko was appointed to command the russian missile forces. He is involved in the artillery shelling of Mariupol in January 2015, as a result of which 29 people were killed.
The first such strike occurred on March 1, 2022, when the russians attacked the Kharkiv Regional State Administration with two missiles: the first fell on the square in front of the building at 08:01 a.m., followed by a second missile that hit the roof 12 minutes later. According to official data, 44 people were killed then. The second strike was specifically aimed at harming civilians.
Russian troops, among missile weapons, most often use 9K720 Iskander missile complexes for double strikes. In ten of the 15 confirmed missile strikes, the russians used 9M727, 9M728 and 9M729 cruise missiles and 9M723 ballistic missiles. The latter is used most often.
As Ukrainian News Agency earlier reported, after the double strike of the russian army on Odesa in Ukraine, corrections were made to the rescuers' work algorithm.
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