In March 2024, the Russian media and Telegram channels reported that the vessel, which was faced with the bridge in the state of Maryland, was led by a Ukrainian citizen. We checked whether this information is correct.
On the night of March 26, near the American city of Baltimore, the Dali container ship lost control and crashed into the supports of the Francis Scott Ki bridge, which brought to the collapse of the main spans of the structure. There were several cars in the water, Died At least two workers, during a collision of the roadbed being repaired on the bridge, and four of their colleagues went missing and, presumably, also drowned. The moment of collapse of the bridge hit the video, these frames distributed The largest World Media.
On the same day, in the Russian -language segment of the Internet, the information began to disseminate information that the captain of the vessel at the time of the disaster was a citizen of Ukraine. They wrote about this Lenta.ru, "Russian newspaper","Gazeta.ru" And "Vesti.ru". The news caused great interest to readers in Telegram, where they told about it in the channels "Live broadcast"(1.4 million views at the time of writing this analysis),"Operation Z: Warrixes of Russian Spring"(614 000), Colonelcassad (437 000), "Dmitry Nicotin"(419 000),"Ne. Sahar"(324 000),"Russia now"(300,000) and others.
DALI containers Faced With one of the supports of the Francis Scott Ki bridge about 01:30 local time. According to the Governor of the state of Maryland Wes Moore, when the ship lost control, the crew gave the distress signal, which allowed the authorities to block the entrance to the bridge and avoid more victims. Containers Manages Synergy Group, Synergy Group, but that time, to transport goods on Sri Lanka, it was captured by the Danish navigable giant Maersk.
The proof that the captain of Dali is a Ukrainian allegedly serves the screenshot of his cards on the site BalticSpping.com. This is the base of vacancies that shipowners and sailors from different countries actively use.
How Approved In viral news, the site “lists all members of the crew of the vessel” and, in particular, “it states that the 52-year-old Ukrainian with citizenship of Ukraine signed a fixed-term contract from February 19, 2024 to April 30”.
However, if you open page Dali on BalticShipping.com, you can only see the profile of a person from the upper part of the screenshot, a citizen of India. As stated on another tab, he worked as a driver on this container truck in 2017-2018.
In other words, the site indicates not the current crew of the vessel, but those sailors who are currently looking for work and mentioned Dali in their professional biography. Where did the information come from that the captain of the container locomotive at the time of his collision with the bridge was a Ukrainian?
The fact is that as of March 26 in the section of the site dedicated to this ship, two sailors really listed. Appropriate The screenshots were preserved by BBC journalist Shayan Sardarizade and his colleagues from Associated Press.
One of these people is a 52-year-old citizen of Ukraine, whose name is indicated as Se *** ****. However, information about his short -term contract with Dali owners from February 19 to April 30, 2024 is incorrect: the last contract of the Ukrainian captain ended on the first date, and from May 1 it is again available for hiring. On the container-cutting bridge, as you can find out from another tab, the Ukrainian was the last time in March-July 2016.
“Verified” found a man with the same data on social networks - his name is Sergey Yatsenko. IN profile Men on Facebook stated that he was born in Kherson, graduated from the Odessa Maritime Academy and works as a captain. Yatsenko also has an inactive closed page On VKontakte, where after the appearance of his involvement in the crash of the bridge, numerous offensive comments were left.
Shortly after the distribution on social networks and the media of the screenshot with BalticsHipping.com, the man deleted his vacancy from this site. Today your services on the resource Offer Almost 400 Ukrainian captains, but his profile is not there.
As for the real Dali crew at the time of the collision of the vessel with the bridge, how indicated On the website of the company owning the ship, it consisted of 22 citizens of India. Also representatives of Synergy Group Reportedthat on the night of March 26, the vessel was ruled by two pilots - a licensed specialist and his student, both US citizens. In accordance with local legislation, every foreign ship in the territorial waters of the United States should have a pilot on board with an American license that takes on navigation administration, that is, gives orders on the speed and direction of the vessel.
Thus, information about the Ukrainian captain of the Dali container truck is not true - a specialist whose photography spread on the network for the last time he worked on this ship in 2016. At the same time, it was not intentional to say that the error in viral publications was intentional. The sailor’s profile was indeed listed on the ship's page on the profile site, but many Internet users incorrectly interpreted the information presented there.
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