Moscow, 25 Feb - RIA Novosti. The torch in the night sky over Kiev is a Ukrainian fighter, shot down by his own air defense, told RIA Novosti source in the Ministry of Defense of Russia. Earlier, President Vladimir Zelensky declared the alleged bombing of residential neighborhoods of the city, "as in 1941." "No rocket strikes in Kiev, about whose heroism during the Great Patriotic War, finally remembered Vladimir Zelensky, the Russian armed forces were not applied," the agency's interlocutor said. He noted that the appearance of a bright torch in the night sky on February 25 above the Ukrainian capital, followed by his fall on a residential house, has a completely different explanation.
"The tasks of air patrolling fighter SU-27 Ukrainian Air Force held at night. In mistake, one of the Ukrainian anti-aircraft missile sets of air defense, stationed near Kiev, identified it as a goal and attacked from staff," the source said. In this regard, the interlocutor added, an analogy with the Great Patriotic War from Zelensky, "who has made everything in recent years for the heroization of Ukrainian Nazis," there really is. "But not from 1941, and from November 1943 - the liberation of the Red Army's liberation from the German fascist invaders," he said.
On the eve of the Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a special military operation in the Donbas. He assured that the plans of Moscow does not include the occupation of Ukraine, only its demilitarization and denazification. The Ministry of Defense emphasized that Russia's armed forces do not apply any rocket, aviation or artillery strikes on Ukrainian cities: the military infrastructure is detained with highly accurate means of defeat, the civilian population is not threatened.
