On October 24, a post on the so -called dirty bomb appeared on the English Twitter of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which two Ukrainian organizations supposedly had to make. We checked whether the photographs used in this post are related to Ukraine.
Since October 23 in Russian media It spreads Information that the Ukrainian authorities are preparing a provocation on its territory related to the undermining of a dirty bomb, or low -power nuclear ammunition. The purpose of this alleged provocation, according to the publication of RIA Novosti, is to blame Russia for applying weapons of mass destruction at the Ukrainian theater of military operations, and thereby launch a powerful anti -Russian campaign in the world, aimed at undermining trust in Moscow. ” On October 24, the head of the troops of radiation, chemical and biological protection (RHBZ) of the Russian Armed Forces Igor Kirillov reportedthat the work on creating a bomb, according to the information of its department, is at the final stage, and the execution is entrusted to two Ukrainian organizations. On the same day, citing the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation about this Wrote On the English -language page of the Russian Foreign Ministry, attaching infographics containing several photos from nuclear objects. They, in particular, captured an unnamed nuclear power plant, containers for storing radioactive waste, as well as plastic bags with a radiation icon. Photos diverged from other large Russian Media. A little earlier, colleagues from the foreign policy of the foreign agency are similar in Russian in Russian Placed In the official Telegram channel of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
Soon after the publication, users began to leave dissatisfied comments under the tweet of the Russian Foreign Ministry. In particular, one of the readers placed under post Screenshot News of 2016 about the find in Mexico of a truck with stolen radioactive materials. On it we see the same photo of plastic bags.
However, the attentive reader here may embarrass the inscription by the Latin residents of Radioaktivno, placed under the corresponding badge. This is not like Spanish. Indeed, the very next day, October 25, on the official page of the Slovenian government on Twitter appeared message The fact that the photograph was taken in 2010 and was used by the Slovenian agency for radioactive waste control (ARAO) for professional presentations. In the picture, according to tweet, you can see Smoke sensors. The tweet accompanied the statement of the head of ARAO Sandy Virshek that radioactive waste in the country is stored in compliance with all safety measures and are not used for the manufacture of dirty bombs. Indeed, you can make sure that the photograph was used as Illustrations to the news until 2016, and the word Radioaktivno is found in Slovenian language.
As for the rest of the photographs, the lower of them, signed by “research reactors”, is actually depicted by the Beloyarskaya NPP in the Sverdlovsk region of the Russian Federation. Photo belongs ITAR-TASS and repeatedly Used various media in the news about this building.
On the right you can see mirror displayed Photo The premises of the Novosibirsk Khimkontentt plant.
But the panoramic picture of the nuclear power plant is really taken in Ukraine - on it we We see Rivne nuclear power plant in the northwest of the country. Moreover, in the media photo Often It is accompanied by the incorrect signature of the Zaporizhzhya NPP. But the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant is likely to refer to photos concrete containers For the worked out nuclear fuel. Their number on the scheme on the right is also indicated right - 173.
It should be noted that some other photos used by the Russian Ministry of Defense in the publications on the theme of a dirty bomb on October 24 did not correspond to the description. How fair I noticed Founder of the Bellingcat investigation project Elliot Higgins, photography, presented as a frame from the filming of a provocative propaganda video on the use of chemical weapons in Khan-Sheikhun (Syria), Taken From the filming of a feature film in the same country.
Nearby we see shots with the signature of "Panic among the population and an increase in the flow of refugees."
People running in panic - frame From New York at the time of the attack on September 11, 2001, and the photo on the right depicts forced evacuation Families from the Syrian province of the El Kuner, which has passed under the control of government troops that collaborated with the Russian military.
In another post of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, an image, Signed with the words "Kharkov Physics and Technical Institute, the Institute of Nuclear Research at the National Academy of Sciences in Kyiv", in publications TASS on February 8, 2021 is called the "Peak reactor at the St. Petersburg Institute of Nuclear Physics named after B.P. Konstantinov. "
Thus, we see that about half of the photographs in the tweet of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, as well as some other photos from the publications of the Ministry of Defense of the country, are actually not related to Ukraine.
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