“Rossiyskaya Gazeta” and other pro-Kremlin media suddenly drew attention to an old piece of news from the Greek resource ProNews, published back on March 12, under the heading “A terrifying strike of the Russian supersonic missile “Dagger” at a depth of 130 meters on the NATO command center in Ukraine! Dozens of dead NATO and Ukrainian officers.”
“Dozens of foreign officers were killed when hypersonic missiles “Dagger” hit the joint Ukrainian-NATO command and communications center, according to the Greek portal Pronews. According to journalists, the blow was struck on March 9, allegedly in response to an attack by Ukrainian saboteurs on the Bryansk region," Rossiyskaya Gazeta writes.
“It is noted that the target was located underground at a depth of 400 feet (120 meters). Pronews writes that about 300 people were there at the time of the strike, including NATO officers and military advisers. As a result of the strike, according to the publication, dozens of alliance officers were killed. Most of them are citizens of Great Britain and Poland. The Greek publication notes that the strike was "a disaster for NATO forces in Ukraine" – the bunker allegedly housed the control and planning center for NATO operations in the country, "the Russian propagandists add.
This is "the first massive strike against" NATO personnel "" in Ukraine, according to the material of the WG.
The source cited by the pro-Kremlin media is, to put it mildly, doubtful: in addition to news about the brilliant victories of the Russian army in Ukraine, there are such sensations as the news about the imminent separation of Florida from the United States in response to the prosecution of Donald Trump, or an article with the headline " Paranoid Times: Transgender people strip down on Dutch show to show kids 'how it's okay to be trans'
However, the source of ProNews itself is even more dubious. In the news about the “terrifying strike of the Kinzhal missile”, he refers to some “Russians”:
“The Russians say they have recovered 40 people from the rubble of the underground headquarters so far, but most of them will never be found as they were buried under the rubble.”
Further, CNN tweets and speeches by Ukrainian officials are inserted as confirmation. However, none of them mentions any strike on the "NATO center", but speaks of massive strikes on residential buildings and the country's energy infrastructure on the night of March 9th. Then the Russian army launched 81 missiles in Ukraine. Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal noted that the main blow was directed against the Ukrainian energy system, and Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba argued that these strikes had no military purpose.
And even the Russian Ministry of Defense did not report any attacks on "NATO centers" and military personnel of Western countries – the target of the attack was allegedly the artillery units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.