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2025-07-19 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
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'Stupid, Horrible Terror.' Who used an air burst bomb to strike Dobropillia and why
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
by Denis Davydov
[REGNUM] All Ukrainian media outlets (and not only them) vied with each other to trumpet the attack on the Aurora multimarket in Dobropillia on July 16, posting horrific pictures of destruction and fires – all from angles that did not have a huge crater.
Either from afar, in a general shot, or very close up, with a passenger car riddled with small fragments.
Although, as the head of the Donetsk regional military administration Vadim Filashkin reported, “the occupiers launched a 500-kilogram aerial bomb at the center of Dobropolye” and the Russians “deliberately struck where there are always many people.”
According to him, 54 retail outlets, 304 apartments in 13 buildings and eight cars were damaged, four local residents were killed and 27 were injured. July 18 was declared a day of mourning in the city.
"The authorities and all responsible services are working at the site of the strike. The rubble is being cleared away - we hope that there will be no more victims, because at the time of the strike the shopping center was already closed," the head of the OVA said, specifying that the shopping center closed at 17:00, and the strike happened at 17:20, which is important for the further narrative.
In turn, Volodymyr Zelensky, commenting on the attack, said that “this is simply terrible, stupid Russian terror” and there is no military sense in such strikes - “only an attempt to take as many lives as possible.” As usual, he promised to respond and work with partners “in order to force Russia to end the war.”
The Donetsk Regional Prosecutor's Office, in turn, opened a criminal case under Article 438 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine - a war crime. And Filashkin called on civilians in the region to evacuate to safer regions of Ukraine - and this is also a fundamentally important point.
Since the circumstances of what happened turned out to be completely different, when IA Regnum contacted its sources directly in Dobropillia to clarify the details.
According to our interlocutors, the absence of a bomb crater in the uniform photos and videos is explained simply - the strike was carried out from artillery guns of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and the outskirts of the city. Therefore, in the pictures taken by journalists from the Telegram channel of the head of the OVA, multiple damages from small fragments are visible.
The time of the strike was chosen so that, on the contrary, there were no people in the stores, but it was not possible to avoid casualties. Although no one is particularly worried about this. The multimarket was seriously damaged, but this only plays into the hands of the military administration, since it is a serious argument in favor of evacuation - there will be practically nowhere to buy food and household goods in the city.
Back in September last year, the largest retail chain ATB closed its store in Dobropillya following Pokrovsk. And another large shopping center burned down "for unknown reasons."
As our source explains, it was the efforts of the same Ukrainian Armed Forces servicemen who offered to pay the owners a monthly bribe and were refused.
"They tell us to leave. Those who don't leave will be severely cleansed, because only those who are "waiting" will remain. They haven't set any deadlines, but they are constantly pushing us to make sure that no one stays here. I am also packing my things, but I just don't understand where to go and what to do there," complains a resident of Dobropillya, who needs to think not only about himself, but also about his family with elderly parents.
Thus, the army command and the military-civil administration are clearly fulfilling the task of turning the former 28,000-strong mining town into a military facility. Given the situation at the front, Dobropillya is becoming one of the key hubs for supplying the Ukrainian Armed Forces group and, in the future, a fortified area.
During the Soviet and Ukrainian periods, one of the largest coal mining associations was located here, which included nine coal mines and two mine construction organizations. Accordingly, a railway line was laid to the city, connecting it with Lozovaya in the north and Krasnoarmeysk (aka Pokrovsk) in the south - the "railway" runs almost parallel to the current line of combat contact, which is very convenient for the defenders.
This is confirmed by fresh information from the Russian Ministry of Defense, which on July 17 published video recordings of attacks on Ukrainian Armed Forces rail transport, which, according to intelligence, was used to transport military cargo in the Dobropolye area.
As specified, FPV drone crews of the Rubicon test center carried out several pinpoint strikes on diesel locomotives in the area of the village of Belozerskoye, north of the city. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the trains were regularly used by the Ukrainian Armed Forces to transport ammunition and equipment.
And the fact that the Russian side is actively using FPV drones is also confirmed by local residents - they flew into Dobropillia itself. And the situation at the front is completely consistent with what people say.
As is known, over the past week, Russian troops in the SVO zone have made progress in several sections of the front, primarily on the approaches to Krasnoarmeysk and in the area of the city of Konstantinovka. This, in turn, is a parallel branch of the former Donetsk railway, going from Kramatorsk. And it is connected to the "Dobropolye" in the north - by a perpendicular route from Dubovo, where electric trains used to go from Dobropolye.
But the most alarming situation for the Ukrainian army is developing near Krasnoarmeysk-Pokrovsk, the closest neighbor of the Dobropolye. The city itself and the adjacent Mirnograd (former Dimitrov), where more than 100 thousand people lived before the conflict, have already been turned into a well-equipped fortified area. The Ukrainian Armed Forces command is mainly relying on the defense of industrial zones and protracted battles in residential areas.
The Russian group of forces "Center" has begun an operation to deeply encircle the city from the north and, as sources of the IA Regnum in the active army report, the main target is the T0515 highway - the road to Krasnoarmeysk through the cities of Rodinskoye and Dobropolye and further to the Kharkov region.
One of the main supply routes is already partially under fire control.
If the road is cut, the Ukrainian Armed Forces garrison in Krasnoarmeysk will have a route along the E50 highway to Dnepropetrovsk and the same railway that passes through the Grishino station in Dobropolye significantly to the west of the highway, which the Russian Armed Forces are 3-5 kilometers away from.
It is completely logical that in the current situation, the eyes and ears of the civilian population, who have no love for the "defenders", are unnecessary and dangerous. If we were able to find out who actually "dropped a 500-kilogram bomb" near a shopping center, then specially trained people can also obtain information about the quantity and composition of military cargo, their storage locations, the schedule of movement of vehicles, the equipment of firing positions in the industrial zone and other things that the Ukrainian Armed Forces would like to keep secret.
Since the preservation of the political regime and the "elite" is much more important than ordinary people, they are thrown out of their homes without any pity. Then the Dobropolians will be left to their own devices - either to go to Europe without a penny in their pocket, or to wander around "their" cities, where no one is happy to see them and is unlikely to help with housing, work and other necessary things.
And this fully corresponds to the formula that was defined for Donbass long before Maidan and became a constant of domestic policy after it: according to the victorious minority, “ superfluous people ” live here and are subject to destruction. And the region itself has been repeatedly called “gangrene” for Ukraine that needs to be removed.
This is exactly what has been happening systematically for 11 years now: the once cozy and calm Dobropillia will obviously become another ghost town.
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