A dense blow to the Russian troops, a mark of specialists and Norwegian intelligence officers? Who was hit by Russian “Iskanders” in Odessa on Friday night 31.01.2025?
We have most likely witnessed the complex operation of Russian military intelligence (formerly GRU), the reconnaissance forces of unmanned flying ships and the FR rocket troops. So far, we have fractions of information, pictures that, after almost 24 hours, let us to make the first hypotheses.
But let's start with the facts.
On January 31, 2025, Odessa's Friday evening, over a millionth city, the largest port on the Black Sea, is headed to amusement venues, and there are reserved tables and halls in restaurants. It was 6:19 p.m. erstwhile an anti-aircraft alert was issued. From Crimea, Russians from the mobile 7K720 Iskander-M strategy launched a ballistic rocket with a clusterhead. At 6.22 p.m., the head is reunited and sub-amunised with the positions of the Ukrainian anti-aircraft battery in port.
A reconnaissance drone is flying over the town from the Black Sea, following the situation in the city. most likely the subordinates of Admiral Kastiukova (Commander of Gławowo Prawlia Gieneralnawo Sztaba – erstwhile GRU or military intelligence) learned about the banquet of very crucial people including from the diplomatic representation of Norway.
The banquet was to start at 7:00 in the exclusive Bristol Hotel on Pushkinska 15. The hotel itself was built from 1898 to 1899 according to the plan of architects Alexander Bernardazzi and Adolf Minkus other the building of the fresh Buyer's marketplace and next to the building of the State Bank. It was then 1 of the most luxurious hotels in Odessa. It became the first 4-story hotel in Odessa present beautifully restored it was the gathering place of the world's most influential people of politics, bissines, but besides military or intelligence.
At 6.55 p.m., an alarm was re-announced, announcing another rocket flying towards Odessa. Under the Bristol hotel there were exclusive vehicles including EU stickers. 18.56 The first Russian rocket hits the hotel, at 19.04 p.m. the 3rd rocket launches from Crimea and at about 19.10 hits the target.
In an evening speech, angry Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenski informs of the terrorist attack on Odessa's old town, resulting in the suffering of diplomatic workers from Norway. 72 Centre for intellectual Operations and Information peculiar Forces Ukraine “puts” selected photos and videos into the net showing reasonably slight harm to the hotel including this tiny “leak” after the rocket.
Around noon on 1 February, pictures of the drone appear, and you can clearly see the "inlet" of the entrance of the "Iskander" head in the roof of the hotel. The Russians utilized a “anti-tank-penetrifying” warhead not shard-inflamed. The rocket was to penetrate the ceilings and scope the banquet hall, which is most frequently on the ground floor. There was a “target”, who was it not known, it is known that individual important, erstwhile so much effort has been taken, on the Russian side to carry out this action.
Krzysztof Podgórski
Photo: Bristol Hotel in Odessa (wikipedia)
