How the russians Shot a Movie, or What was the Purpose of a Thousand Naval Mines Planted in a Single Spot?

Yesterday, on October 1st, Ukrainian media got flooded with reports about some suspicious containers that were planted underground as they appeared in the drone footage published by Ukrainian soldiers.

Dozens of strange-looking spheres were put in a trench with an explosive charge from the UR-77 vehicle.

Instantly, a suggestion appeared that those were containers with chemical weapons, and they looked like ones, indeed. Another variant was that it is some sort of a "conventional" trap against the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

However, it turned out to be preparations for the shooting of a propaganda movie, according to the latest reports. The explosives used were naval mines, most likely the MYaM contact mines.

According to the spokesperson of the Odesa region military administration Serhii Bratchuk, 24 tonnes of TNT were buried under ground in total. Considering that a single MYaM carries about 20 kg of explosive, the total number of mines exceeds 1,200 units.

And all that just to shoot a video of a "destruction of a Ukrainian ammunition warehouse with a single shot from a tank", which you can see below.

This picture was captured by Ukrainian military, about a hundred of objects of unknown origin were being laid in a trech / Image credit: OperativnoZSU

Explosives spotted while being planted by the Russians the other day turned out to be intended for another propaganda material to show on Russian TV

And all that just to shoot a video of a “destruction of a Ukrainian ammunition warehouse with a single shot from a tank”, which you can see below.

YOUTUBE- How Russia makes fakes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1-bTZJXL2A

The Russians have dome this since the reign of Yekaterina the great. Read about potemkin villages.

Grigory Potemkin was a minister and lover of the Russian Empress Catherine II. After the 1783 Russian annexation of Crimea from the Ottoman Empire and liquidation of the Cossack Zaporozhian Sich (see New Russia), Potemkin became governor of the region. Crimea had been devastated by the war, and the Muslim Tatar inhabitants of Crimea were viewed as a potential fifth column of the Ottoman Empire. Potemkin’s major tasks were to pacify and rebuild by bringing in Russian settlers. In 1787, as a new war was about to break out between Russia and the Ottoman Empire, Catherine II, with her court and several ambassadors, made an unprecedented six-month trip to New Russia. One purpose of this trip was to impress Russia’s allies prior to the war. Another purpose was to familiarize herself, supposedly directly, with her new possessions. To help accomplish this, Potemkin set up “mobile villages” on the banks of the Dnipro River. As soon as the barge carrying the Empress and ambassadors arrived, Potemkin’s men, dressed as peasants, would populate the village. Once the barge left, the village was disassembled, then rebuilt downstream overnight

Of course, it sounds more impressive to blow up a Ukraine ammo dump with a single shell from a ultra advanced high-tech Russian tank in a make believe movie, than to show a HIMARS single rocket blowing up real life Russian ammo dumps ... by the dozen ...

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