The explosions in Belgorod on May 12 ended in the destruction of a high-rise building.
- The collapse of a house in Belgorod on May 12: what is known
- The moment of the collapse of a house in Belgorod: video
- Collapse of a house in Belgorod: statement by the governor
- Collapse of a house in Belgorod: statement by the Russian Ministry of Defense
- Collapse of a house in Belgorod: expert explanation
- Collapse of a house in Belgorod: what they say in the Central Operations Center under the National Security and Defense Council
Collapse of a house in Belgorod on May 12: what is known
After the explosions in Belgorod on May 12, one of the eight entrances to the ten-story building completely collapsed.
At this moment, a hole can be seen right in the middle of the house.
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While rescuers were searching under the rubble for people from 40 destroyed apartments, the roof partially collapsed on them.
According to preliminary information, 19 people were injured, including two children.
They were all taken by ambulance to medical facilities in Belgorod.
Six have already been released to continue treatment at home.
Heavy equipment, excavators, bulldozers, and cranes were involved in the rescue operation.
House-to-door visits continue, residents are being evacuated to temporary accommodation centers.
The moment of the collapse of a house in Belgorod: video
The explosion and the moment of the collapse of a house in Belgorod on May 12 were caught on video.
The footage released shows how the structures of the house are flying down and everything around is enveloped in smoke.
Collapse of a house in Belgorod: statement by the governor
Since the emergency event coincided with an air raid warning in the region, Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov hastened to blame the Ukrainian side for the collapse of the house in Belgorod.
However, as noted in the NEXTA live publication, when a dormitory collapsed in the Komi Republic the day before, for some reason they were looking for a “Ukrainian trace” embarrassed.
Collapse of a house in Belgorod: statement by the Russian Ministry of Defense
The Russian Ministry of Defense, which usually holds back information about arrivals and reports only on “successful repulses of attacks”, commented on the collapse of a house in Belgorod less than an hour later.
They claim that during the alarm their air defense was destroyed:
- six Tochka-U missiles;
- four rockets from the Vampire MLRS;
- two rockets from the Vilkha MLRS.
“Fragments” one of the “shot down” missiles from the Tochka-U tactical missile system, according to the Russian defense department, allegedly damaged a residential building in Belgorod.
By the way, this “explanation” The author of the Telegram channel, Nikolaevsky Vanek, couldn’t help but comment.
In particular, he is interested in whether the Russian Ministry of Defense can demonstrate the fragments of the Tochka-U missile, which “as a result of the downing” magically ended up underground in one of the Belgorod houses and detonated so much that it demolished the entire entrance.
Collapse of a house in Belgorod: expert explanation
Military-political observer of the Information Resistance group Alexander Kovalenko also wonders how the “wreckage” a failed missile could have brought down a section of the house.
– The rocket fragments could not penetrate all the floors of the high-rise building and explode on the first floor. And detonation is clearly visible on the first floors. The power of the explosion was at least half a ton, explains Alexander Kovalenko.
This could only be done, continues Alexander Kovalenko, only by a bomb, for example, the concrete-piercing BetAB-500, which the Russians now use as often as the high-explosive fragmentation OFAB-500 with a universal planning and correction module (UMPC).
Besides, now, the expert says, when the Russian occupation forces are imitating “epic” offensive on the borderland of the Kharkov region, the intensity of the use of OFAB-500 with UMPC has increased significantly.
According to the expert, everything points precisely to the convergence of the defective BetAB-500 with the Su-34, which has already happened several times in Belgorod, but without such large-scale destruction with tragic consequences.
In addition, Alexander Kovalenko adds, the video does not record the diagonal passage of the missile taking into account the flight path.
Therefore, we can conclude that it could have been a free, vertical fall of a bomb in which the UMPC did not open.
In turn, concludes the military-political observer of the Information Resistance group, “progress” at least the refutation of the version of a targeted attack on the house by the Ukrainian side has begun.
The regression is that it’s still a lie, says Alexander Kovalenko.
Collapse of a house in Belgorod: what they say in the Central Operations Center under the National Security and Defense Council
For the head of the Center for Countering Disinformation at the National Security and Defense Council, Andrei Kovalenko it looks like a house in Belgorod was blown up.
– The video from the cameras does not show any objects on fire. Accordingly, all the Russian accusations of shelling the Defense Forces at the moment are untrue, notes Andrei Kovalenko.
The head of the Center for Action under the National Security and Defense Council believes that the collapse of a house in Belgorod is like a provocation by Russia to inflate the situation in order to justify further attacks on residential buildings in Ukrainian cities .
Also, adds Andrey Kovalenko, it could have been a domestic explosion, which Russian propaganda is now interpreting as shelling a house for its own interests.
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