Shocking new images show the radioactive clothes of victims of Russia’s ‘doomsday weapon’ explosion dumped in plastic bags, as a chilling new report reveals a military diver suffered a dose ‘one thousand times higher than lethal’.
The pictures allegedly show black sacks containing the waste items from casualties of the blast, which killed five people and left others seriously injured.
The bags were dumped outside a hospital in Arkhangelsk before being incinerated.
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The pictures allegedly show black sacks containing the waste items (pictured) from victims of the blast, which killed five people and left others seriously injured
The black bags were left dumped outside a hospital in Arkhangelsk before being incinerated (pictured)
A mysterious Russian military explosion left five Russian scientists dead happened during tests on a new nuclear-powered rocket. Officials were seen wearing protective clothing as they transported casualties (pictured)
The military diver died hours after the blast adding weight to the idea Russia covered up a significant nuclear accident.
Disturbing pictures and footage also show for the first time the damage caused by the explosion to a sea platform where a missile engine was being tested.
Most medical reports of victims were allegedly destroyed by the FSB secret service in what doctors allege was a cover-up, but the diver’s record was overlooked.
Disturbing pictures and footage also show for the first time the damage caused by the explosion to a sea platform (pictured) where a missile engine was being tested
Images on the blitzed pontoon (pictured) first appeared on local social media groups in northern Russia
The footage comes despite a Russian military warning that the site (pictured, Central Military Naval Testing Area in Nenoksa) is guarded and closed to locals who face ‘horrors’ if they go there due to radioactive poisoning
He is unnamed but leaked medical records indicate he suffered ‘acute radiation syndrome’ as well as leg wounds from the explosion.
His skin suffered ‘contamination with radionuclides’ which had also accumulated in his body.
He died en route to Moscow after being seen by doctors in an Arkhangelsk hospital where, it is alleged, ordinary patents including pregnant women and medics were put in jeopardy of poisoning because Russia’s military did not inform them a nuclear leak had caused the devastating explosion.
Experts said they suspected the explosion and the radiation release resulted from a mishap during the testing of a nuclear-powered cruise missile at a facility outside the village of Nyonoksa
The man suffered a massive doze of 30,000 gray – the unit measuring radiation – which was described by an informed expert as ‘one thousand times higher than lethal’, said media outlet Newsreader.
Two others suffered lesser dosages in the August 8 blast in the White Sea.
Meanwhile, video of a visibly blitzed pontoon along with a second sea platform has emerged on the shore close to Nyonoksa village, which is next to a top-secret Russian naval weapons testing facility.
The footage comes despite a Russian military warning that the site is guarded and closed to locals who face ‘horrors’ if they go there due to radioactive poisoning.
The video shows a radiation reading taken several hundred yards from the pontoon in the days after the explosion – with a reading of 5–6 micro-roentgen per hour, within normal limits.
But one expert has said that the severely damaged structure may still be highly contaminated.
Video shows a radiation reading taken several hundred yards from the pontoon (left) by the maker of the clip in the days after the explosion with a reading of 5–6 micro-roentgen per hour (right), within normal limits
A military figure earlier told residents that those killed were blasted high into the air on the pontoon and suffered ‘dreadful injuries’.
While Russia has restricted release of information about the accident, prompting claims of a Chernobyl-style cover-up, the naval captain was secretly filmed giving details of the incident to locals in a specially-called public meeting.
Naval captain Vladimir Bosy (pictured) was secretly filmed giving details of the incident to locals in a specially-called public meeting.
His identity was revealed as Captain Vladimir Bosy, commander of military unit 09703, nicknamed zero-nine, deployed at the naval testing station.
He was quoted as saying: ‘On 8 August people went out to the pontoon and it exploded from underneath…
‘They were killed because the pontoon was lifted up into the air. And those on the pontoon got dreadful injuries.’
He did not specify further the nature of the injuries.
Images on the blitzed pontoon first appeared on local social media groups in northern Russia.
They were later withdrawn but have now been highlighted by Radio Svoboda, while a video remained open on another local site.
Pontoons in the same location have been highlighted by the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies in Monterey.
There were dramatic satellite pictures of the pontoons, which were some two-and-a-half miles offshore when the accident happened.
There were dramatic satellite pictures (pictured) of the pontoons, which were some two-and-a-half miles offshore when the accident happened
Since the blast, the sea platforms were dragged or thrown to the shore at a scenic spot visited by locals, rather than a site inside a military base (pictured)
Nuclear expert Valentin Gibalov told Radio Svoboda it is likely one or both the pontoons are contaminated by radiation
Since then they were dragged or thrown to the shore at a scenic spot visited by locals, rather than a site inside a military base.
Nuclear expert Valentin Gibalov told Radio Svoboda it is likely one or both the pontoons are contaminated by radiation.
Separately, a mass of evidence has appeared in recent days suggesting the scale of poisoning was worse than the Russian authorities acknowledged.
Two of the five died from radiation rather than blast injuries, it was reported.
A bath and other hospital equipment in Arkhangelsk – where victims were treated – was removed because it was found to be highly radioactive.
Doctors have warned that civilians patients as well as medics were put in jeopardy of radiation poisoning because the military authorities failed to tell them the nature of the blast.
Doctors have warned that civilians patients as well as medics were put in jeopardy of radiation poisoning because the military authorities (pictured, the Central Military Naval Testing Area) failed to tell them the nature of the blast
Shocking disclosures from independent media Meduza revealed how radiation monitors came to the hospital while surgery was underway linked to the incident.
‘The dosimetrists showed up and started measuring beta radiation levels,’ said a source at the hospital.
‘They ran out of the operating room in terror.
‘Doctors caught them in the hallway, and they confessed that the beta radiation was off the scale.’
Captain Bosy explained what went wrong in the accident.
Shocking disclosures from independent media Meduza revealed how radiation monitors came to the hospital while surgery was underway linked to the incident near Nenoksa village (pictured)
He admitted: ‘Works had been carried out in order to test one of the engines for a missile.
‘This missile engine is fed by radioactive isotopes…. they are its power source. An extraordinary situation took place and as a result of it, there was an explosion.
‘But it was not a nuclear explosion, it was an explosion of an explosive substance.’
He warned villagers not to go to the site where the pontoons are washed up.
‘Those [radioactive] elements may still be there, in the sea,’ he said.
‘The sea may throw out on the shore those things on the pontoons that were destroyed…
Captain Bosy said: ‘This missile engine is fed by radioactive isotopes…. they are its power source. An extraordinary situation took place and as a result of it, there was an explosion.’ Pictured: The Central Military Naval Testing Area
‘Some people are already planning to visit this place, to share all this.
So I would like to warn you – you should not do this, because it can lead to problems that you are afraid of…
‘Horrors would follow. This is what I am warning you about. This is why area is being guarded – to stop you going there.’
The Kremlin last week hit out at anonymous doctors alleging radiation poisoning.
The Kremlin last week hit out at anonymous doctors alleging radiation poisoning. Pictured: The Nenoksa testing area
‘Someone wants to deliberately escalate information tensions, distort reality, and present the situation as if there were prerequisites for danger,’ said Vladimir Putin’s spokesman.
Three injured testers are reported to be recovering. They were named as engineers Dmitry Abanin and Aleksander Manyukhin and another specialist Sergey Grishin.
The five killed in the explosion were Vyasheslav Yanovsky, 71, one of Russia’s most senior nuclear scientists, Vyacheslav Lipshev, 40, director of a secret research institute, Evgeny Korotaev, 50, a leading electronics engineer, Alexey Vyushin, 43, who had developed a high-energy photon spectrometer, and Sergey Pichugin, 45, a testing engineer.