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No RS saying the attack was targeting civilians, and no RS saying Ukraine bears the responsibility. Quite the contrary: Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, June 24, 2024 | Institute for the Study of War (understandingwar.org) The Kremlin information operation linking these two events is nonsensical if only because the civilian casualties in Crimea resulted from Russia's interception of an incoming ATACMS missile rather than a deliberate Ukrainian targeting decision. The Russian MoD acknowledged that a Russian air defense interceptor caused the Ukrainian missile to deviate from its flight path and detonate in Sevastopol.[15] An unspecified US official also told Reuters in a June 24 article that Russian forces were able to intercept the ATACMS missile targeting a Russian missile launcher causing the ATACMS missile to explode and rain down shrapnel on the Sevastopol beach.[16]. ManyAreasExpert ( talk) 09:05, 1 July 2024 (UTC) reply

Greetings @ Chastizement, you need to address issues raised above before returning the contested template.
Also, removing reliable sources from the article [1] is not OK. ManyAreasExpert ( talk) 19:47, 1 July 2024 (UTC) reply
@ Manyareasexpert, this is an isolated demand for rigour. No one said that the template should be used only when the civilians were *targeted*, in the sense of being the planned target of an attack. Most of the time it'd be very hard to definitively prove who was targeted, as it'd require either some kind of leak or an admission by a perpetrator.
The same template is used for dozens of articles about Russian attacks with civilian casualties and most of them have no reliable sources proving that civilians were in fact targeted (e.g., Chasiv Yar missile strike). Alaexis ¿question? 20:27, 1 July 2024 (UTC) reply
Well I took Event template from Sinking of the Moskva and used it here, what is the reason for the revert [2] ? ManyAreasExpert ( talk) 20:31, 1 July 2024 (UTC) reply