The Russian Defense Ministry said that on the night of August 14, they attacked Odesa “at the places of production and storage of unmanned boats of the Armed Forces of Ukraine”. It is not true.

The case was studied by the fact-checkers of the Center for Strategic Communications. The agency, headed by Serhii Shoihu, circulates similar phrases in reports of attacks on Odesa and the Odesa region, which have intensified since Russia's withdrawal from the “grain agreement”. In fact, the Russians did not fire at “places of production and storage of unmanned boats”, but a supermarket, a hostel, a gym for a local youth sports school, apartment buildings, pharmacies and cars.

Thus, Russian propaganda is trying to convince the whole world that the Russians are not shelling civilian targets, but only hitting military infrastructure. So they are trying to hide the genocide of Ukrainians. Earlier, we talked about the message that Ukrainian officials pass off military facilities as civilian ones.