The attack which targeted the city of Odessa in Ukraine on the night of this Saturday to this Sunday left two dead. “There is a deliberate desire on the part of Moscow to prevent the people of Odessa from living normally and to maintain pressure”, analyzes General Jérôme Pellistrandi.
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Russian strikes on Odessa are aimed at “terrorize” the population, estimates Sunday, July 23 on franceinfo General Jérôme Pellistrandi, editor-in-chief of the journal Défense nationale. This attack on the night of Saturday July 22 to Sunday July 23 left two dead and partly destroyed a historic cathedral, classified by Unesco.
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Moscow claims to have struck places where preparations were being made “terrorist acts against Russia”. For a few days and the suspension by Russia of the agreement on Ukrainian cereals, the city is effectively “bombed every night”in particular its commercial port, explains Jérôme Pellistrandi.
On the other hand, “hitting the Cathedral of the Transfiguration is an action aimed at terrorizing the population”assures the specialist, because“It is in the city center. It is necessarily to want to target the civilian population and in no case military objectives”.
Jérôme Pellistrandi says he does not believe in an error. “Even if they had imprecise weapons, we don’t use them to strike on the city center (…) There is a deliberate desire on the part of Moscow to prevent the people of Odessa from living normally and maintaining pressure”.