Russia provides satellite images of the Beirut bombing to Lebanon

Russia this evening (Wednesday) responded positively to Beirut’s request for satellite images of the explosion in the port of Beirut, according to Fars News Agency’s International Group.

According to the network report «المیادین“All available satellite imagery for the port of Beirut, both pre-explosion and post-explosion, will be provided to Lebanon,” the Russian Federal Space Agency said.

The Lebanese presidency announced on the seventh of this month that it had officially asked Moscow to provide satellite images of the day of the explosion in the port of Beirut to the Lebanese judiciary.

The request was made by Lebanese President Michel Aoun during a meeting with Russian Ambassador to Beirut Alexander Rudakov on the same date, while Russian President Vladimir Putin had mentioned in part a few days ago that Moscow could Assist in investigating the Beirut port explosion investigation and provide satellite imagery to the Lebanese side if available.

Lebanon once requested satellite imagery from Russia, but France refused to comply.

Following the bombing of the port of Beirut, the Lebanese president asked his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, to provide the country with satellite images of the explosion at the port of Beirut, in order to help uncover the hidden angles of the case.

Former Lebanese Prime Minister Hassan Diab also announced that he had asked the French president for pictures before, during and after the blast. A similar request was sent to Italy; But Hassan Diab said in this regard: “Normally they should have given us the pictures; “But that did not happen and I do not know why.”

Lebanon witnessed a massive explosion on the port of Beirut on August 4, 2020; The blast killed at least 200 people and injured 6,500.

Investigations into the Beirut port bombing are ongoing, and officials have not yet commented on the cause of the blast.

However, the online newspaper Rai Al-Youm recently reported, citing special sources, that the investigation had answered questions such as who brought the ship carrying ammonium nitrate to Lebanon and for whom.

In an interview with the newspaper, the sources revealed that the money for the ship was paid from a bank located in one of the Arab countries of the Persian Gulf, whose main branch is in Switzerland, and people affiliated with Al-Mustaqbal’s Saad al-Hariri party entered the port. Beirut. However, these sources said that this action was taken without informing Saad Al-Hariri.

The sources also said that the cargo was most likely stored in the port of Beirut and then sent from there to armed opposition groups stationed on the Syrian-Lebanese border. It stays and explodes near the warehouse due to welding and fire.

According to these sources, the welding hypothesis has been cited in the investigation as the most logical cause for the explosion in the port of Beirut.

Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah, secretary general of the Lebanese Hezbollah movement, has called for the release of the results of the investigation to the public in three speeches since the bombing of the port of Beirut until today. “Gather the victims and tell them how their children were martyred.”

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