Airstrike on Lugansk RSA building

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Seven civilians were killed in an Ukraine air force strike on the Lugansk RSA (regional state administration) building on June 2, 2014.


Compressed evidence of attack, damage, casualties presented by Watchdog Media Institute.
Part of a longer video which is part of the series Roses have Thorns

Sources

Those killed - three women and two men - are all civilians, witnesses told RT. One of them was the LNR’s health minister, Natalia Arkhipova. During the air-strike, she was talking to another woman on the administration building’s steps, the self-proclaimed republic’s premier, Vasiliy Nikitin, said.
Minutes earlier, heavy machine-gun shooting was reported in the center of Lugansk, as fierce fighting between the local self-defense squads and Kiev forces renewed after a brief truce. ... Meanwhile, fighting in the Lugansk region continued later on Monday, with another airstrike reported by the self-proclaimed republic’s authorities. They said that Kiev forces launched an air strike on a checkpoint in the region and there were casualties.
Kiev, however, denied attacking the HQ, ... The Ukrainian authorities sent its air force to Lugansk to support border guard units stationed in the area, said Vladislav Seleznyov, the spokesman for the military operation ... Seleznyoov added that according to preliminary experts’ conclusions, the explosion (in Lugansk, RSA) resulted from an attempt to launch some anti-aircraft missile. ”Fighter jets could become vulnerable while making turns," he said. “Perhaps, terrorists were trying to shoot them down from some air defense system, but the explosion occurred inside the building.”

Video

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Su-25 ground attack plane fires missile:

In an interview on August 19 in front of the building a militia man says that Kiev eventually admitted that they did it, allegedly mistakenly and "missing the target".

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Video analysis

Analyses four videos via geolocation and triangulation, coming to the conclusion that the jet in the videos indeed fires missiles towards the administration building.

Photos of victims

Denials

Left: Ukrainian planes start bombing terrorists in the center of Lugansk (VIDEO) – 16:20
Right: Ukrainian aviation not involved in attack? on Lugansk RSA, but attacks two block posts of terrorists – 17:15

Ukraine denies any involvement in the airstrike

"Ukrainian officials killer continue cynical lie that the militias themselves accidentally fired on the RSA building with MANPADS"

In Luhansk, there was an explosion in the main regional building seized by the separatists several weeks ago. It was not immediately known what caused the blast. Unconfirmed reports say there were casualties. Pro-Russian groups accused Ukraine's military of carrying out an air strike. Kiev denied the claim, suggesting that separatists in the building could have mishandled a portable anti-aircraft missile system.
In Luhansk the situation remained volatile. On 2 June, shortly after 15:00 hrs, rockets hit the occupied regional administration building. Based on the SMM’s limited observation these strikes were the result of non-guided rockets shot from an aircraft. The number of casualties is unknown.

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