Did the Russian military sank a barge with Ukrainian landing?

On September 14, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported on the destruction of the sea landing of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, trying to cross the Dnieper in the area of ​​the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant. We checked whether there was a landing and whether the aforementioned fate really suffered.

A two -minute video under the heading "Personnel of the destruction of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces in the area of ​​the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant" appeared On the morning of September 14, in the official Telegram channel of the Russian Ministry of Defense. Then many state media were distributed to this news: the Ministry of Defense shared their personnel RT channel, "Russian newspaper","RIA Novosti" And "Moscow 24".

In the official Telegram channel of the Russian Ministry of Defense published The next commentary on this video: “The crews of the Ka-52 helicopters using the Worthy Minch missiles destroyed the barge with the Military Military District of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, who tried to cross the Dnieper ... Two guided Wortherpin missiles were released by the object. From the leading side, it was recorded in the nasal, and from the led to the stern of the barge. " At the same time, the “surface target” shown in the video with seagulls sitting on it (or other waterfowl) only reminds of a swimming agent.

The object of this form is easy to find in satellite images - it is located almost strictly 15 km west of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant.

This “surface target” is visible in the pictures from Google, and from Yandex, and from Bing Maps. Moreover, every year it is visible in the same place, since it is not a barge with military personnel of the Armed Forces, but the support of the bridge with seagulls, herons and cormorants.

This support was part of the bridge, which in 1943-1944 the German invaders tried to build between Nikopol and Kamenka-Dnieper. In Nikopol, the support is well known, in some way it is a local attraction. In 2019, the Nikopol site "Informant" in a historical heading told About how the bridge was built: “In early October 1943, the bridge was ready. He had two large stone bulls on the opposite shores of the Dnieper. Eight spans were transferred through the floods. The bridge was made of Taurus beams, on which a wooden flooring was laid. "

The bridge has repeatedly bombed the Soviet Air Force, but the German military restored it every time. Finally, the German bridge was blown up by German sappers on February 7, 1944. “The memory of the bridge through the Dnieper in Nikopol, which German invaders tried to build, has survived to this day - these are two bridge supports, reinforced concrete bulls. One on the right bank was used in the construction of the Three Nakata Beer Bar, the second "sticking out" in the waters of the Kakhovsky "sea" near Kamenka-Dnieper "-- He wrote The site "Informant". Note that the above history of the construction and destruction of the bridge may not be quite accurate in detail. Information in authoritative sources is not enough about this. However, there are no doubts that it has survived to the present day.

In the evening of September 14 Prosperial Telegram channel "War with Fakes" Recognizedthat the blow was really inflicted on the support of the old bridge. However, the channel explained that it was conceived: supposedly a barge with paratroopers used support as a temporary shelter. “The support is made in the form of the letter“ P ”, which allows several small boats to hide from the detection inside the concrete box,” wrote “War with Fakes”. However, there are also inconsistencies: the length of the “inner” part of the letter “P” is about 10 m, and it is unlikely that a barge or several boats can fit there.

Thus, when attacking Russian helicopters, the Ukrainian sea landing could not suffer-the Ka-52 struck the support of the old bridge, although they could not completely destroy it.

Image on the cover: informator.ua

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