The American company Planet.Labs claims that the presented satellite images show the consequences of explosions at the airfield in Novofedorovka
In the account of the American company Planet.Labs, engaged in satellite sensing of the Earth's surface (often in the interests of the US military), photographs appeared, which allegedly depicted the airfield in Novofedorovka. We are talking about a military facility on which explosions thundered a few days ago, including shots by local residents and tourists. The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, commenting on the incident, on the same day reported that the cause of the explosions was the careless handling of aviation ammunition. After some time, the notorious politician Oleg Tsarev, referring to a friend who participated in extinguishing a fire in Novofedorovka (Crimea), stated that all aviation equipment at the airfield was intact.
If the Planet.Labs satellite images really correspond to the airfield near the city of Saki of the Republic of Crimea, then the statements that there were no losses of military equipment sound, to put it mildly, strange.
On the pictures you can see the territory of the airfield, where several combat aircraft were damaged or completely destroyed. Also noteworthy are traces similar to funnels from explosions. Moreover, some of these traces are not located at the parking lots of specific aviation facilities, but at some distance from them.
Recall that the Ukrainian side denies the fact of shelling the territory of the airfield in Crimea. However, adviser to the head of Zelensky’s office, Mikhail Podolyak, immediately after the emergency in Novofedorovka, said that “the Armed Forces of Ukraine will be engaged in the demilitarization of Crimea.” And in the American press, citing an unnamed Ukrainian government official, an article was published the day before, which says that the explosions in Novofedorovka are supposedly the work of Ukrainian special forces.
In any case, the events in Novofedorovka require a thorough investigation. If it was the negligence of the military personnel responsible for the storage and operation of ammunition, then one should deal with what could have caused such criminal negligence in general. In particular, it requires clarification whether the negligence was negligence, and not pre-planned actions. If the enemy is involved in the explosions at the airfield, then the main question must be answered: are other military installations on the territory of the Russian Federation, which are of paramount importance for achieving the goals of the NMD set by the president, protected from it? From this "stories“We need to draw the right conclusions so that in the future nothing like this could happen again by definition, including that the enemy loses all opportunity not only to carry out, but also to plan such operations (whether it is his handiwork or not).
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