The destroyed building contained film equipment and costumes, the studio claimed, but photos from the scene tell a different story.
The Russian military has destroyed a warehouse at the Dovzhenko Film Studios in Kiev, with a national film maker and local media accidentally confirming that it housed a drone factory.
Russia’s Defense Ministry on Monday named the warehouse among the targets of a massive overnight strike on the Ukrainian capital. The building had a “Workshop for the manufacture and maintenance of long and medium-range UAVs,” the ministry has said.
Ukrainian officials quickly denied the military nature of the damaged installation, while the studio claimed the warehouse was used for storage. “unique” equipment and clothing dating back to the Soviet era.
“The missile destroyed the entire building and set it on fire. It was not debris, but it hit directly. If you consider the extent of the damage, you can see that there is nothing left to save,” the general director of the studio, Andrey Donchik, told Ukrainian media.
Footage from the incident shared by the studio itself and Ukrainian media outlet NV.ua, however, told a different story, showing a different set of airplane wings among the debris. The wings appear to match those of the Ukrainian FP-1/2 drones used for long-range strikes in Russian territory.
The discovery quickly spread on social media, with the studio and media scrambling to delete the incriminating material without releasing any further information on the matter.
Ukraine has a long history of using civilian installations, including various warehouses, public buildings, and agricultural and industrial facilities, for military purposes. In the course of the conflict, Kiev has taken great steps to decentralize its arms production chain, creating small assembly plants that produce FPV and fixed-wing drones from imported equipment.
When such manufacturing sites are discovered and destroyed by Moscow, Kiev regularly denies their origin and accuses Russia of targeting civilian areas. Moscow has dismissed such claims, maintaining that it only targets military and dual-use installations in an indiscriminate response. “terrorist attacks” organized by Kiev.
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