Is it true that as a result of the shelling of Kyiv, the headquarters of NATO secret operations was destroyed?

In September 2024, there were reports that Russian troops were struck by the secret headquarters of the North Atlantic Alliance in the Ukrainian capital. We checked the reliability of this news. 

The allegations that during the Russian shelling on the night of September 21, the NATO secret headquarters in Kyiv was destroyed, began to spread on the network on September 23. There were no details in the publications-it was only reported that more than 20 military and infrastructure facilities were amazed during the attack. As evidence of Telegram channels and the media used a screenshot news about the destruction of the alleged headquarters taken from an unidentified site. 

This was told by such Telegram channels as "Uncle Glory"(185,000 views at the time of writing this analysis),"Bocharik (yeah, the same)"(118 000) and"Alexander Semchenko"(97,000), as well as publications"Arguments and facts" And "Moscow Komsomolets".

Telegram channels and the media that spread the news refer to the same source: the publication of a certain Hal Turner, whom some of them call a famous American journalist. It is also indicated as the author of the note from the viral screenshot.

The material on the destruction of the Russian missile of the NATO headquarters was published On the site Halturnerradioshow.com September 21. Turner with reference to the Procedure Resistance in Ukraine lists objects allegedly destroyed or damaged as a result of a Russian attack last night. According to him, the secret NATO Operations Center Operations Center for Operations, Military Enadian Warehouses, the Military Equipment Bases, the Armed Forces of Armed Forces, and the Great Radio Communication Unit of Military Intelligence of Ukraine were destroyed. According to Turner, the Russian military also struck the military unit in Kharkov, where at that moment there were Azov and several groups of foreign mercenaries, fuel storage facilities in the Poltava region, hydroelectric power station in the Kyiv region, the installation of air defense systems in Cherkasy and the Dnieper, the oil storage and ammunition wires in Ivano-Frankivsk and the military airport in the military airport in Nearby, the city of Kolomyia. 

As an illustration, Turner uses a photograph allegedly taken in Kyiv. It shows an explosion within the limits of urban development in the dark. At the same time, the details, unambiguously indicating that this happened in Kyiv, is difficult to find in the picture. Turner did not indicate the author of the photo.

Thanks to the opposite search for the image, it was found that the picture was really taken in Kyiv, but almost three weeks before the publication of the notes of the “famous American journalist”. A very similar photograph in a report on the consequences of the blow on September 2 Used The Ukrainian edition of New Voice, as the author of the picture, is the correspondent of Reuters Gleb Garanich. In the SCANPIX photo cargoer, we found another of his work, also done on September 2 and completely coincided with the image used by Turner. However, such the use of images in the media is a fairly common practice. 

By data The Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, on the night of September 2, the Russian army attacked Ukraine with 35 rockets of various types and 23 shock drones, most of which managed to knock down. Head of the Kyiv City Military Administration Sergey Popko reportedThat the air defense forces shot down more than ten missiles over the city, as well as a shock drone. Due to the fall of fragments in different areas of the city, fires flashed, injuries Received Three people. Similar information brought And the mayor of the Ukrainian capital Vitaly Klitschko. 

Popko comments on every shelling of Kyiv, but on September 21, such posts did not appear in his Telegram channel. There are no them in the Klitschko channel. “Verified” failed to find publications of Ukrainian officials and the media, which confirm statements from viral publications. 

Moreover, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation in their summary For September 21, I reported on much less modest in comparison with the text of Turnner of military successes: “Operational-tactical aviation, unmanned aerial vehicles, missile troops and artillery of the armed forces of the Russian Federation, two warehouses of missile-artillery weapons were destroyed, and ammunition was defeated by the Kyiv regime by the countries West, as well as clusters of manpower and military equipment of the enemy in 153 regions. ” The Russian military department does not give any details.

The spread of such unreasonable statements is typical of Turner. This is an American ultra -right conspiracyologist who leads its author's radio program and the same name website. Turner is known as supporter neo -Nazi views and negative Holocaust. In 2009, it Arrested For incitement to violence - on his website, Turner called on readers “pick up weapons” and use it against officials. He later threatened three judges of the US Court of Appeal in Chicago. During the investigation by Turner seized Weapons and ammunition, and in court he claimed that he worked as an informant of the FBI and acted on their instructions. In August 2010, a publicist Recognized The guilty and in December of the same year was sentenced to 33 months of imprisonment. 

After release, Turner continued to disseminate conspiracy theories and fakes - for example, he regularly published inaccurate information about his website Pandemia Covid-19 And vaccination. The activist did not ignore the full -scale Russian invasion of Ukraine - in particular, in the spring of 2024, he without links to sources declaredthat the French military is massively dying in the war.

Thus, the assertion that on the night of September 21 in Kyiv was destroyed by the NATO secret headquarters was not a single basis. Its source is the website of the American ultra -right conspiracyologist, and the information presented by him is not confirmed by anything. 

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