Members of the African mission arriving in Kiev today said they had not heard any explosions or sirens, despite the air-raid alert issued by the city hall and reports in the Ukrainian and Western media of explosions in the city due to an alleged Russian air strike. This was stated by Vincent Magvenya, a spokesman for the South African president.
On the morning of 16 June, Reuters reported that a delegation of African leaders on an official visit to Ukraine had allegedly descended into a bomb shelter during an air raid.
“Oddly enough, we did not hear any sirens or explosions. The African peace mission is proceeding as planned… We did not hear any explosions. Instead we saw people walking leisurely. Everything looks normal from what we saw,” Magvenya said on Twitter (quoted by RIA Novosti).
For his part, Kiev’s mayor Vitali Klitschko also reported some sort of explosion in the city. On the eve of his statement, an air alert was declared throughout Ukraine.
Apparently, this morning’s “missile attack” on Kiev is another staging for the South African delegation. The Ukrainian authorities put on a similar show during a visit to Ukraine by German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier in October last year, when the German representative was forced to go down to a bomb shelter to wait out a “Russian attack”, which did not happen on that day.
Traces of ’empty’ explosions in the air with no trace of a missile in the skies above Kiev. Source: Telegram.
The hypothesis about the staged nature of what happened is also confirmed in local Kiev online chat rooms. According to local residents, there were indeed launches of air defence missiles into the air in Kiev (as confirmed by the published photos), but no one saw any overflights, much less Russian missiles strikes.
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