[September 20, AFP]The US newspaper The New York Times reported on the 18th that a missile fired from Ukraine’s military’s air defense system killed 16 people in an attack on a market in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk Oblast on the 6th. It was reported that the cause was that the bullet landed in error. Ukrainian authorities deny the report, blaming the attack on Russian forces.

The attack took place at a market in the city of Konstantinovka, and President Volodymyr Zelensky immediately blamed it on “Russian terrorists.”

However, the paper said that after analyzing the evidence, it was a “tragic event” that occurred when a missile fired from the Ukrainian military’s Russian-made Buk surface-to-air missile system went off course. .

Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) denied the report, telling AFP that the attack was carried out by Russian forces using an S300 surface-to-air missile system. “This is evidenced by missile fragments recovered at the scene,” he said.

Both the Buk and S300 systems are used by both the Ukrainian and Russian militaries. (c)AFP