An independent Russian media outlet, iStories, attempted to contact Timoshin about the allegations but did not receive a response. Kremlin officials have not commented publicly about any of the Ukrainian prosecutors’ accusations against Timoshin. In the filing, investigators singled out Timoshin as having commanded the Russian aviation squadrons that fired the Kh-22 missiles at Ukraine, allegedly dispatching his pilots from the Shaykovka airfield in the Kaluga region of the Russian Federation, which, the prosecutor general's office claims, violates the laws and customs of war by using anti-ship missiles on civilians. This past January, the Ukrainian prosecutor general's office issued a “note of suspicion” for Russian Air Force colonel Oleg Timoshin-a legal step that is roughly equivalent to a “target letter” by a US special counsel-indicating that Ukraine’s security service (their main investigative agency) would like to bring in Timoshin for questioning as part of an ongoing pre-trial probe. At the beginning of this year, another Kh-22 missile, which a spokesperson from the Ukrainian Air Force says was launched near Kursk, struck a nine-story residential building in the city of Dnipro, killing at least 46 people and injuring 79. Shortly following the attack on Kremenchuk, at least 21 people were killed and 35 injured when, according to Amnesty International, at least two Kh-22s hit a resort and hardware store in the town of Serhiivka. Two days before the Kremenchuk tragedy, according to Ukrainian military analysts, a Kh-22 missile killed six people in Sarny, in the Rivne region. The prosecutor general’s office insisted that the same kind of missile was also used in at least three separate attacks the previous month: in Kramatorsk, in a bombardment of a recreation center in Zatoka in the Odesa region, and in the city of Lozova in the Kharkiv region. The assault on Kremenchuk was not the first time Russia had aimed a Kh-22 missile at civilian targets in Ukraine. The Comfy outlet bore the brunt of the damage: 11 of the approximately 21 fatalities from the missile strike on the mall. The Russians, having attacked a civilian mall instead of a military target, were apparently sending a brutal message: now, no one was safe. At a remove, the footage had captured the cold, quick reality-mass murder in the middle of a regular working day. By GENYA SAVILOV/AFP/Getty Images.Īt the moment of the missile strike, one camera caught a blinding white light, smoke, and then darkness. Rescuers clear rubbles from the missile strike on Amstor mall in Kremenchuk, June 28, 2022.
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