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- Nika Tera Harbour belongs to the Ukrainian enterprise DF Group. DF Group representatives publicly stated on June 7 that the company's comprehensive facility in the Nika Tera port was bombarded on June 4 and was completely useless.
incident background
Recently, a user of "Today's Headlines" released a message saying that the grain storage terminal of the COFCO Group in Nikolayev Port in Ukraine was attacked by the Russian army for the second time after being bombed in April, and was completely destroyed. Several pictures suspected of showing the smoke at the bombing site were attached to the article.
According to the news released by the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council on May 23, 2016, on May 19, 2016, the DSSC terminal, which was a wholly-owned subsidiary of COFCO Group, invested US$75 million in Ukraine, was officially put into production. The terminal is located in the Mykolaiv Maritime Commercial Port, which is wholly owned and operated by COFCO Agriculture. The export-operated variety is corn. The total throughput of the terminal is 2.5 million tons/year, and the storage capacity is 143,000 tons. It is equipped with two grain elevators, including 16 silos with a capacity of 120 tons and 4 silos with a capacity of 1500 tons. The maximum unloading capacity is 10,000 tons/day. It is also equipped with a grain dryer and cleaning machine (processing capacity of 50 tons/day), an loader (loading capacity of 1,000 tons/hour, 20,000 tons/day) and a grain quality testing laboratory.
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The message on the Internet contains a picture suspected of showing the bombing of the port terminal of Nikolayev Port in Ukraine (bottom right). A counter-search on the image can be found that a report released by Ukrainian independent news agency Skeptic UA published on June 5 said that according to the local Nika Tera port in rocket , the warehouse where sunflower seeds were stored was hit, triggering a fire that lasted for more than an hour.
After verification, the Novosti N news website did release a related report at 10 pm local time on June 4th, saying that on the evening of the 4th, Russian artillery shells hit Nika Tera port, and the entire city was filled with smoke from the fire. The report uses the above image, with the caption "Russian army shelled Nika-Tera port where Nikolayev".
Novosti N news website report screenshot.
In addition, Novosti N also published another report titled "Nikolayev, after a huge explosion, a black smoke column rose into the sky". One of the pictures used in the report is consistent with the pictures that appeared in the online news (top left).
Nicolayev, after a huge explosion, a black column of smoke rose into the sky.
Search for Nika Tera on Google Maps and you can find a photo uploaded by Google user Vladimir Sud (владимир сущ), in August 2021. The picture clearly shows a building with a gray rectangle appearance, which is very similar to one of the buildings in the above-mentioned pictures of the bombed port. Taking this building as a reference point, if you examine Nika Tera and its surrounding environment on Google Earth, you can find the building at about 31°58’43.76’’ East longitude and 46°51’13.62’’ North latitude, and the geographical distribution of surrounding infrastructure is basically consistent with the online circulating pictures.
Image uploaded by Vladimir Sud to Google Maps.
Google Earth (Part 1) satellite map and the circulated pictures (Part 2), the geographical distribution of Rudder buildings and their surrounding infrastructure is basically the same.
Planet's satellite picture taken on June 7 shows that there are signs of bombing at the 46°51'03.09''N, 31°58'54.88''E locations on the left and right sides of Nika Tera port have been bombed recently. In addition, Ukrainian self-media @TpyxaNews released a video at 6:41 pm Beijing time on June 8, saying it showed the current situation of the Nika Tera Cereal Pier after it suffered a few days of attack. The steel-covered bridge-like building structure in the video appears as the background is similar to the structure near the round building that appears in the circulated pictures. Based on this, it can be roughly confirmed that the bombing location shown by the rumored pictures on the Internet is near the port of Nika Tera.
Satellite map shows that warehouses near the port of Nika Tera were bombed.Image source: Plane
Tpyxa released a video showing the situation after the attack on Nika Tera Cereal Pier.
Refer to Google Earth, Nika Tera Port and DSSC terminal invested and built by COFCO are both located along the South Bug River in Ukraine, but the straight-line distance between the two is more than 10 kilometers. Therefore, it is impossible to draw the conclusion that COFCO assets were bombed from the pictures circulated online. In addition, some netizens on Twitter claimed that the rumored pictures on the Internet showed the scene of Nikolayev's ammunition depot being blown up, but there is currently no public information indicating that Ukraine has an ammunition depot or weapon depot in the Nikolayev region.
. According to a report released by Reuters on June 8, Beijing time, Ukrainian authorities claimed that the shelling on June 4 destroyed the warehouses of one of the largest agricultural commodity terminals in Ukraine. Although the Ukrainian government did not announce the name of the warehouse, a Ukrainian business called DF Group admitted that it was destroyed its facilities in the local Nika Tera port.
COFCO's DSSC terminal (Part 1) is more than 10 kilometers straight away from the attacked Nika Tera port (Part 2).
On January 25, 2021, the official website of DF Group published an article saying that in 2020, Nika Tera, a member of the DF Group, became one of the largest taxpayers in the Niklaev region - the company paid 2.487 billion Ukrainian hryvn (approximately RMB 558 million) taxes to budgets at all levels. The pictures in the related article also show the body buildings emphasized above. Screenshot of the press release of
DF Group official website.
On June 7, Lanny J. Davis, a US joint lawyer for Dmytro Firtash, owner of DF Group, issued a public statement, which mentioned: "The Nika-Tera port complex located at the mouth of the Bug-Dnieper River in southern Niklaev, leading to the Black Sea , was bombarded on a large scale... Last Saturday (June 4, 2022), the port terminal suffered the largest attack to date, leaving the port facilities completely unavailable."
Screenshot of the statement released by Lanny J. Davis.
To sum up, the so-called "COFCO Group's assets were attacked in the port of Nikolayev, Ukraine" is actually a picture of the Nika Tera port on the South Bug River being shelled on the afternoon of June 4th local time. The straight-line distance between the address and the location of the COFCO Group's warehouse is more than 10 kilometers.
Nika Tera Harbour is affiliated to the Ukrainian enterprise DF Group. DF Group representatives publicly stated on June 7 that the company's comprehensive facility in the Nika Tera port was bombarded on June 4 and was completely useless.
Editor in charge: Huang Fang
Proofreading: Zhang Liangliang
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