The serial number of the missile that hit the Kramatorsk railway station, causing havoc among the civilian population waiting for a train to leave the country, indicates that this Tochka-U was “in the register of the Armed Forces of Ukraine”, reported a Donetsk TV channel.
According to the Union channel (Donestsk), the Ukrainian Army it had already “used missiles of the same series” to carry out attacks in that region and Lugansk.
According to the Actualidad.RT portal, the missile that hit the city of Kramatorsk, in Donetsk province and left at least 50 dead last Friday night, was recorded by journalists from the Italian channel La7, who They showed the projectile and it could be seen that it is the 9М79-1 version of the Tochka-U tactical missile, with the serial number Sh91579 (Ш91579).
Another version referred to gave an account of the inscription “For our children” that was written on the rocket from the attack on the railway station, according to the images of photographers at the scene of the bombing and Ukraine 24 television.
Russia denied that attack and stated from the outset that the Tochka-U tactical missiles, “whose fragments were found near the Kramatorsk train station and published by eyewitnesses, are used only by the Ukrainian armed forces.”
For his part, Víctor García Guerrero, correspondent for Televisión Española (TVE), who remains in Kramatorsk, He also published a photo showing the missile with its serial number and pointed out that with this data “it is possible to identify the arsenal of which country it belongs to.”
The Union channel later recalled that a missile that was used during the attack carried out in February 2015 in the town of Alchevsk had the serial number Sh91565 (Ш91565), while another that hit during an attack in Logvinovo, also in February 2015 , had the serial number Sh91566 (Ш91566); “the same series as in Kramatorsk, the difference is 13 units in the number.”
According to RT, that channel then offers videos and screenshots of transmissions in which that serial number is visible and complete: “On March 18, the Russian air defense forces shot down a Tochka-U missile with the serial number Sh915516 (Ш915516) over the city of Melitopol, in the Zaporozhye province. It is a shell of the same series as the one used during this week’s attack on Kramatorsk.”
the ukrainian authorities They did not comment on the appearance of the images showing those identification numbers on the shell that hit Kramatorsk.
From the Donetsk People’s Republic they indicated that the Tochka-U are not in their arsenal, nor in that of the Lugansk People’s Republic, nor in that of Russia, but that the Ukrainian military actively use them.
