Since mid -March 2023, many Russian media have reported various details about the destruction of the bunker in the west of Ukraine by the supersonic missiles of the Dagger. According to various sources that the publications cite, from 200 to 300 generals and officers of the “shadow General Staff NATO” were killed. We decided to check how true this is information.
Many Russian media wrote about the destruction of the secret underground headquarters: “Komsomolskaya Pravda” Published the news March 30, and April 14 came out article The military observer of the publication with the statement that it is precisely because of this attack that the Ukrainian counterattack is postponed. Also wrote about this "MK" Lenta.ru, "Gazeta.ru" And "Tsargrad".
March 9, 2023 Russian Ministry of Defense reported About the "Simultation of Retribution." It was about revenge for penetration to the Bryansk region of the Ukrainian detachment. Official Kyiv He called it This incident is “classical provocation”, and responsibility For the raid, he took over the “Russian Volunteer Corps” - a unit consisting of Russian citizens and fighting on the side of Ukraine. IN message The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation said the following: “high-precision weapons of large-range air, sea and ground-based basement, including the dagger hypersonic missile system, key elements of the military infrastructure of Ukraine, the enterprise of the defense industry, as well as the energy facilities that provide them. The purpose of the blow has been achieved. All assigned objects are amazed. ” No other details of this attack from the military department at the time of publication were received.
The Ukrainian authorities, in turn, spoke about the rockets themselves and about the damage they had inflicted. According to Yuri Ignat, the official representative of the Air Force Air Force forces, Russia launched six daggers. One of the missiles was really struck by the goal in the western part of Ukraine - but not the “secret NATO bunker”, but several private residential buildings in the Zolochevsky district of the Lviv region. About this reported The head of the regional administration Maxim Kozitsky. Five people were killed.
On March 10, the message about the alleged destruction of the “NATO shadow headquarters” began to spread through Russian Telegram channels. The first to write about this was the site channel "Truth.ru", Bringing on the" military men "of the Warfiles website.
There is such articlebut the link to the full text of the note leads to the site "Free press". The sources indicated in the article are unnamed Ukrainian publics. As follows from the statistics of the TGSTAT service, until March 10 there were no such posts in Telegram. There are no such records on Twitter until March 10.
On March 12, a link to Russian telegram channels began to spread article, published on March 9 on The Intel Drop. The author of the article, indicated as “Cossack Colonel Yuri Kominienko,” reports that the “dagger” missile allegedly got into a bunker hidden at a 80-meter depth. This bunker, the article says, was used to coordinate air defense systems. The author writes that up to 300 people died, 40 of them are senior specialists. There are no sources in the article. Other publications on this site are articles of pro -Russian and pro -River content, historical notes (for example, under the name "After the war, Eisenhower killed about a million German soldiers") And investigations that distribute Conspiracy theories.
March 30 by the Russian media appeared New source: Publication on the Greek Portal of Political and Military Information Pronews. "MK" indicatedthat the Greek site refers to its American sources. However, in the text itself publications The only source of information about the allegedly inflicted strike on the bunker and the numerous victims is the phrase "Russians (Oι ρώσοι) say that."
The fact of the Snopes Found The earliest mention of the blow to the NATO bunker. The article of the same “Cossack Colonel Yuri Kominienko” appeared on March 1, 2023 on the Australian website Cairns News. It was this publication that was completely reprinted by The Intel drop. But it is important that she appeared eight days before the Russian army struck the “daggers” in the Lviv region.
The first mention of the "Cossack Colonel" appeared On the Australian site on April 27, 2022. The journalist of the publication wrote that he managed to contact the video through a translator with a person who is near Kiev. At that time, the “Cossack Colonel” (in the first article is called Yuri Komienko) spoke about underground biolaboratories in Ukraine and about the soldiers of the French foreign legion hiding in the basements of Azovstali.
After that, the Australian site began to regularly publish articles “Cossack Colonel”. In June 2022, for example told About a missile strike, which killed up to 50 high -ranking military from Ukraine and NATO countries, as well as about American satellites, disabled by Russian troops in space.
Pimeyes recognition site Determinesthat the interlocutor of the Australian site is a resident of Sakhalin Yuri Kornienko. His photo appeared In the articles of regional media dedicated to the meetings of representatives of public authorities. At one of these meetings Kornienko He called himself foreman and representative of the local Cossacks.
On Sakhalin, this person has scandalous glory. In May 2022, Kornienko I went out On a picket with the demand of the governor's resignation. He introduced himself as chairman of the Council of Ataman Sakhalin and said to journalists that the governor won thanks to the support of the Cossacks - supposedly Kornienko personally brought 70,000 people to the polls. In December of the same year I got through The air channel Sakhalin and complained that war veterans in Ukraine were not helped. Kornienko said then that he was wounded near Severodonetsk, and now he returned home. However, the Sakhalin Cossacks from their comrade renounced: the real chieftain of the Pacific Cossack Society in an interview with MK He called it Kornienko as an impostor. From the company Kornienko Excluded In January 2022, there were doubts that he generally participated in hostilities.
Thus, the messages of the Russian media about the destruction of the “secret NATO bunker” near Lvov are not based on any reliable information. Initially, a man with a dubious reputation, who seemed to the Cossack colonel and broadcast the most popular fakes about the war with Ukraine, spoke about this Australian site. Publications did not have other sources. Officially, neither the Russian military, nor Ukrainian, nor NATO command reported about the destruction of the bunker and its existence.
Photo on the cover: kremlin.ru
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