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  • 2022-10-21 (xsd:date)
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  • Did The Ukrainians Hit The Crimea Bridge With A HIMARS Missile? (en)
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  • A video shared on Facebook claims the Ukrainian military hit the Crimea Bridge with a High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) missile. Verdict: False There is no evidence that Ukraine hit the Crimea Bridge with a HIMARS missile. Ukraine does not have HIMAR missiles capable of hitting the bridge. Fact Check: The Crimea Bridge was hit by an explosion earlier this month, with the cause of the explosion currently not officially known, though Russia has claimed a truck carrying some type of explosive caused the incident, according to NPR . Ukraine has used HIMARs to target Russian targets beyond the frontlines, Newsweek reported . The Facebook video claims that the Ukrainians destroyed a tank convoy traveling on the Crimea Bridge. The video shows various HIMARs, burning vehicles and other military footage. (RELATED: Does This Image Show Russian Conscripts With Mosin-Nagant Rifles?) There is no evidence Ukraine hit the Crimea Bridge with a HIMARS missile. If the Ukrainians had hit a tank convoy on the bridge, credible media outlets would have covered it, yet none have . There is also no visual evidence of such a strike and open-source intelligence (OSINT) accounts, such as Ukraine Weapons Tracker and Blue Sauron , have not published any footage of a strike occurring on the bridge. Furthermore, the United States has thus far refused to provide Ukraine with the MGM-140 Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS), which has a range of 190 miles, according to The New York Times . Ukraine has offered the U.S. targeting oversight in a bid to convince the U.S. to provide these missiles, CNN reported . They haven’t been given the type of missiles – ATACMS – that would have the range to hit targets in Crimea, James Rushton, a Kyiv-based security analyst, previously told Check Your Fact in July. Russian officials and a senior Ukrainian official told The New York Times that the cause of the explosion was a truck bomb. Other experts believed the cause of the explosion was a maritime drone, according to BBC News . Misinformation regarding the Russian invasion of Ukraine has been widespread since its inception in February. Check Your Fact previously debunked a video claiming an American B-2 bomber recently arrived in Poland. (en)
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