Recently, the BBC British corporation spoke about the construction of a new military base in Mariupol with a large logo of the Russian army on the roof. We decided to check whether such a large -scale unmasking symbol is really applied to the roof of a military facility and whether the construction has a military purpose.

On Saturday, December 3, BBC reportedthat Russia is building a military presence in Mariupol - a new building with a large (approximately 20 to 20 m) logo of the Russian army on the roof, which is a military base of the Russian Federation, was discovered in the Maxar space. Information was widely dispersed by English -language media And the Internet. In Russian, the publication wrote about this "Agency"as well as Ukrainian publications nv.ua And "Dialogue". Subsequently BBC Corrected The publication, adding the text that "it cannot check it or confirm what a new building is used for." And the next day, some Ukrainian media reported that we are talking about a “huge morgue disguised as a diagnostic center” (1, 2, 3). They referred to publication Advisor to the mayor of Mariupol Peter Andryushchenko in Telegram.

The BBC article does not mention the exact location of the object. However, in the presented picture you can see several streets and intra-quarter driveways, the unique configuration of which allows you to quickly establish where exactly the construction of the construction of the territory of the Mariupol ambulance hospital (BSMP), which had recently existed recently, the building of the infectious department, was erected.

Assuming that the new building can also have a medical appointment, we found on the network reportage, called “how the hospital destroyed by Kiev in Mariupol is restored, and the accompanying article states that it is about the BSMP. First of all, this video sheds light on the riddle where the old infectious department had gone, although, of course, the words of the culprit should not be taken on faith. But the main thing, thanks to the operator who filmed the building on both sides, there is no doubt that this is the very object that the BBC wrote about.

If you mentally continue the western facade, it will “lead” to the St. Nicholas Cathedral (we have outlined the contour of the new building with white):

When the operator removes the northern facade of the building under construction, a large pipe and a small top is clearly visible in the distance: a small one:

In the text under the video, the building is called "Covid StatePalm." The proximity with the surviving after the fighting by hospital buildings speaks in favor of this version. The architecture of the building also correlates well with this statement. For example, according to a similar project in the spring of 2020, Built The infectious center of the Ministry of Defense in Nizhny Novgorod is both buildings in Plan, the right “leg” is wider in both letters, in the bases of both “legs” vertical poles are arranged in the same way (schematically: | _ | ___ | _ | ___ | _ | and | ___ | ___ | ___ | _ |).

During the Covid-19 pandemic, military builders often engaged in the construction of rapidly vested infectious hospitals in various regions of the Russian Federation, so it seems reasonable to interpret the inscription on the roof of the Russian Army Mariupol as “this object was built by the army of Russia”, and not “this object is the Russian army.” Of course, without additional surveys, it is impossible to exclude that treatment here, including military personnel (or even they). Nevertheless, we can definitely say that the building mentioned in the article BBC is not a military base.

Photo on the cover: Maxar.