
I.O. The chief editor of the Flot.com website Sergei Sochevanov was entrusted with the authenticity of the pictures of training aircraft bombs published by his publication with the inscriptions "on Berlin!" And "for Stalin!" “The photograph was taken by our correspondent,” said Sochevanov on the air of Echo of Moscow. “These pictures are genuine, we vouch for the decency of our employee, and the fact is that there were such inscriptions.”
The task of the report was not to demonstrate the inscriptions on the shells, the acting Glavred. "For the first time in 20 years, training bombing from the An-26 military transport aircraft was held. This is a really significant event for naval aviation," he explained.
Sochavanov added that he does not know who and when he inscribed on shells. "It can be both crews and some employees of the airfield, Arsenal employees where bombs were stored," he said.
Flot.com is a non -state edition. The report on the training bombing with An-26 appeared on the site on August 7. Photos were performed by the correspondent George Tomin.
The scandal in connection with the inscriptions on the bombs flared up after Bild wrote about the exercises on Tuesday . The German newspaper recalled that in Putin Russia Soviet times are glorified for several years and parallels are carried out between the struggle against Nazism in the Second World War and the modern confrontation with the West against the background of the war in Ukraine. “The inscriptions on the bombs“ on Berlin! ”And“ For Stalin! ”Are something more than just a manifestation of nostalgia, and demonstrate dangerous trends in the Russian leadership and the army,” the publication emphasized.
Meanwhile, in the Russian Ministry of Defense, the pictures responded as follows: "This is either just stupidity, or photomontate, or a desire to just play anti -Russian sentiments." According to the military department, "neither during storage in warehouses, nor even more during training measures, no inscriptions on ammunition are applied."