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August 23, 2014

Ukraine refutes breakaway rebel claims of using ballistic missiles in civilian areas

Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) says it can prove that a August 20 report on Zvezda TV station run by Russia's Defense Ministry, which claimed to show a Tochka-U missile strike, was actually old footage of a failed Russian Proton-M satellite launch in Kazakhstan.

"The Ukrainian Army struck Makiyivka with a Tochka-U rocket," causing "destruction to the city," says the Zvezda  TV host as video of a flying object falling and exploding just beyond a high-rise plays in the background.

NSDC has produced a video rebuttal, which it says shows clearly that the Zvezda material is actually taken from the failed July 2013 launch in Kazakhstan of a $200 million Russian Proton-M rocket.

Video grab from Youtube


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