{"id":1510,"date":"2023-05-16T05:55:20","date_gmt":"2023-05-16T05:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afghanistan.factcrescendo.com\/english\/?p=1510"},"modified":"2023-05-24T05:55:38","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T05:55:38","slug":"the-image-does-not-show-fire-at-the-chernyshev-factory-in-moscow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afghanistan.factcrescendo.com\/english\/the-image-does-not-show-fire-at-the-chernyshev-factory-in-moscow\/","title":{"rendered":"The Image Does Not Show Fire At The Chernyshev Factory In Moscow"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The image depicts a fire at a Moscow oil refinery in 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A fire broke out<\/a> at the machine building plant named after VV Chernyshev in Moscow, which produces engines for MIG fighter jets. Three people were injured as a result of the incident. The fire occurred in an administrative building on Cherry Street. As per reports the factory specializes in the manufacture of engines for fighters. To date, the company is part of the Rostec State Corporation and produces engines for MiG-29 and MiG-35 aircraft.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this context, a recent image of a fire behind a group of multi-story buildings circulated widely on social media, with users claiming that it shows a fire at a Russian factory. The caption reads \u201cThis is the third major russian fire to report on this morning. At the chernyshev factory in moscow, which produces engines for MiG-29 fighter jets\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A reverse image search reveals that the image depicts an oil refinery fire in Moscow in 2018. According to the Russian news outlet Business Petersberg\u00a0article<\/a>\u00a0dated 17 NOV 2018, that the incident occurred as a result of a \u201chigh-temperature oil refining unit\u201d catching fire.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In further search we came across a reuters report<\/a> published on 17 Nov, 2018 on this incident. According to the report \u201ca fire broke out in an oil refinery in Moscow on Saturday morning, shutting down a unit that Thomson Reuters data said produced more than half the plant\u2019s gasoline output. Fire crews battled for more than three hours before extinguishing the blaze at the refinery in the capital\u2019s Kapotnya district, the emergency ministry said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The plant\u2019s owner \u2013 Gazprom Neft, the oil arm of Russian gas giant Gazprom \u2013 said the refinery was back working as usual apart from a catalytic cracking unit which was offline. The unit has a daily production capacity of 6,900 tonnes of gasoline that accounts more than a half of the gasoline produced by the plant, according Thomson Reuters data. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to another\u00a0report<\/a>\u00a0\u201cMoscow oil refinery, owned by Russian oil producer Gazprom Neft, has caught fire, due to the fire at Gazprom Neft\u2019s oil refinery, an entire unit which is responsible for producing more than half of the plant\u2019s gasoline output was shut. Also, post the incident, no casualties were reported at the plant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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