At the end of July 2022, the Russian Ministry of Defense said that the Ukrainian military equipped a supporting point right in one of the schools in the city of Dnieper, and in addition, "in the immediate vicinity of this educational institution placed artillery and armored vehicles." It is impossible to check the first part of this statement by force of facts. We decided to check its second part.

The fact that Ukrainian artillery and armored vehicles were next to the school in the city of Dnieper, He said Head of the National Center for the Defense of the Russian Federation, Colonel General Mikhail Misintsev. He called both the school number and the address - school No. 23 on Yavornitsky Avenue. It was also quoted "Russian newspaper" And "Komsomolskaya Truth". In the last two cases, the retelling of the Minitsev briefing was accompanied by a photograph of the Ministry of Defense, where among other things there was a satellite picture of school No. 23.

Photo: Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation

An infrequent case: each of us can open spaceships on the Yandex.Marts and Google Maps services and see something that really resembles a missile launchers, artillery guns, a shadow of a tank and other suspiciously looking objects arranged literally a few dozen meters from the school around the perimeter of a neighboring semicircular building:

The only problem is that this building occupies a diorama "Battle for the Dnieper", And military equipment applies mainly to the period of the Great Patriotic War (we will be accurate: there are both a later S-125 air defense system and the modernized howitzer of the time of the First World War-it is closest to the school). It cannot be ruled out that this equipment was installed by military personnel, but if so, then Soviet.

This diorama was opened in Dnepropetrovsk (the name of the city of Dnieper until 2016) in 1975 to the 30th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War. Soviet Batalist artists Nikolai Butchkin and Nikolai Ovechkin worked on Diorama itself, who received the State Prize of the Ukrainian SSR for this project four years later. A museum technique was exhibited near the building.

122-mm howitzer of the model of the 1910-1930s. Building with windows in the background - school number 23. To school about 40 m. Author of the panorama: Toxxus

Starting installation of the S-125 air defense system. In the center, the building of Diorama, to the left - school No. 23. To the right of the stairs is the same T-34–85 tank, the shadow of which is distinguishable in the Yandex.Cart space cosmic. Author of the panorama: Toxxus

A memorial plaque on the building of the diorama. Author of the panorama: Toxxus

A boy on the T-34–85 tank. Behind the BM-13 tank "Katyusha" based on ZIS-151. Author of the panorama: Toxxus

A little farther from the school, also in the open air, the exposition is placed "Jackets Donbas"(" Roads of the Donbass ") of the Dnieper Historical Museum: checkpoint, enthusiastic signs called by shots (Volnovakha, Ilovaysk, Kramakorsk, Luhansk, Mariupol, Severodonets, Sright), Frownfoot Tower, Destroyed Bus Stop, Burnt Legumes, Elistrated Two "Bukhanka" ambulance and other exhibits.

A checkpoint that opens the exposure. Author of the panorama: Dmitriy_malyshev

Entrance signs. It is they who in the picture from space remotely resemble reactive shells laid out on the ground with a semicircle. Author of the panorama: Dmitriy_malyshev

Part of the exposition dedicated to health workers. Author of the panorama: Dmitriy_malyshev

The T-64 tank gun tower and a view of the same tower on top. Author of the panorama: Dmitriy_malyshev

Entrance plate to the city of happiness. Author of the panorama: Toxxus

We can reliably not be able to establish whether Russian intelligence has accepted museum exposure exhibits for military equipment, but this does not affect the verdict much: apparently, the statement of the representative of the Ministry of Defense is not true.