Flew over the Crimea: Shoigu checked the "leading positions" of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation far in the rear (photo)
This was reported on Twitter by the international volunteer project GeoconfirMed. According to the statement of the Russian Defense Ministry, on December 18, he checked the group of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in the area of the so -called "special operation". The head of the Ministry made the departments of the deployment of troops, communicated with the invaders and thanked them for the "exemplary performance of combat missions", reported in the department.
GeoconfirMed experts found that the ministry exceeded Shoigu's "feats". The official was in fact far from the leading positions of the Russian military. Volunteers analyzed the personnel removed by the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, and the geolonology of the Minister flew over. From the helicopter, he viewed areas adjacent to the border of Crimea with the Kherson region. "They show trenches to prove that it has flew the front line.
In fact, his helicopter flies 85 kilometers from the war zone," the project says. Shoig just flew over the temporarily occupied Crimea. Going out of the map and geoconfirMed marks, it was in the north of Crimea, near the city of Armenian. "In fact, he visited the Crimean defensive line. So it is undoubtedly not" advanced positions, "the volunteers concluded. Experts found out which helicopter was the head of the Ministry of Defense of Russia. A rare full-time Mi-8 version.
We will remind that Shoigu, together with Russian President Vladimir Putin, came to Belarus to meet with Alexander Lukashenko. It was Putin's first visit to Belarus since June 2019. At the American Institute of War Study (ISW), they talked that this meeting may be part of an effort to demonstrate activity and create conditions for a new stage of war in Ukraine.