🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦 Tomorrow, when every Kiev regime stooge, Western outlet and European leader starts screaming that "Russia is deliberately targeting churches" — keep this in mind.
An Iskander-M carries a 480–700kg warhead. A Zircon carries an estimated 300–400kg warhead but strikes at Mach 8 — the kinetic energy alone is devastating before you factor in the explosive yield. Either one striking the Dormition Cathedral would have left a crater where a thousand-year-old cathedral used to stand. The structure would be unrecognisable.
What the footage shows is a roof fire, with walls and domes intact. That is not the signature of a ballistic or hypersonic strike. That is the signature of a failed air defence interceptor coming down on a historic building — exactly what local residents and early footage from Kiev suggest happened tonight.
🇷🇺 Ukrainian air defence is being blamed by local residents for the fire at the Pechersk Lavra.
Russia has no interest in striking one of the most sacred sites in Orthodox Christianity.
The Kiev regime, however, has spent years waging a campaign to expel the Moscow Patriarchate monks and seize the Lavra by force.
Whether this is the result of Ukrainian air defence bringing down a drone or missile over the complex, or something more deliberate, remains to be established.