The Drive: Russia has built a bridge across the Pripyat a few kilometers from Ukraine
A pontoon bridge erected by the Russian military on the Pripyat River in Belarus a few kilometers from the border with Ukraine can be used by Moscow to transfer equipment. Thus, the American edition of The Drive commented on satellite images of the structure made by Planet Labs.
The publication claims that the bridge itself in the Polessky Radiation and Environmental Reserve was built on February 14-15, and on February 13, the clearing of the area on the banks of the river was carried out under it. The Planet Labs images, dated January 8, do not show any signs of the construction of a bridge across the Pripyat.
Recent Planet imagery of the Pripyat river in Belarus near the RU-UA border shows a new bridge having been constructed earlier today. https://t.co/JFRxhEUW0j pic.twitter.com/cMTpMGrkHP- Amelia Smith (@ameliairheart) February 16, 2022
According to the publication, the construction of the structure involves the use of the PMP-M pontoon bridge park. "We can almost certainly say that the construction of this bridge across the Pripyat River is connected with the actions of the Russian and Belarusian military around Ukraine," the publication was afraid.
It is also noted that on the radar images taken on February 16 by the Sentinel satellite, the bridge over Pripyat is not observed. "Even if this is the case, the fact that it could have been removed so quickly and erected at such a speed underscores how easy it will be to put it back in place in the future," says The Drive.
In April 2021, Vladimir Yatsenko, head of the laboratory for radiometric and spectrometric studies of humans and the environment at the Burnazyan Federal Medical Biophysical Center of the FMBA, said in an interview with the Izvestia newspaper [...] that traveling to the city of Pripyat affected by the Chernobyl accident was already safe.
