Russia claims to have 'destroyed' Ukrainian special forces team near Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant.
In the video posted on Twitter, the nearby city of Kam'yanka-Dniprovs'ka can be seen on the pilot's left, further verifying the location of the Russian attack.identifying the bridge support too.
"This is not a barge, but the support of an unfinished bridge, which the Germans tried to build in 1943, even before the Kakhovka Reservoir came into existence," Gerashchenko wrote on Telegram, attaching the photo of the structure. A group of penguins can be seen atop it. While there is the possibility that Ukrainian Special Forces may have been attacked elsewhere, or even that they were positioned at the bridge support , the video does not depict a barge attack as the Russian government and state media claim.
The"barge attack" claim is among a number of other misleading Ukraine-Russia related news stories thatEarlier this month, accounts falsely attributing the claim that Russia destroyed 44 HIMARS launchers in Ukraine to the Russian Ministry of Defense wereAnd this week, a fake letter purportedly from the British Army was found circulating online, whichhas contacted the Ukrainian and Russian ministries of defense for comment.
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