In social networks, the number of unreliable reports about the military operation in Ukraine is growing. The Ministry of Defense of Russia has already warned about this. They noted: the more successfully our armed forces perform their combat missions, the greater the flow of false reports and outright disinformation. Distribute them, as they put it in the department, “sofa troops of Ukraine.” It is noted that the SBU is also involved in these stuffing.
Due to the special operation of the Russian military to protect the Lugansk and Donetsk People’s Republics, a lot of fakes appear on social networks. For example, the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine posted this video on their accounts. The footage shows a Ukrainian plane allegedly shooting down a Russian Su-35.
But social media users quickly recognized the fake. It turned out to be incredibly similar to footage from the Digital Combat Simulator computer simulator. The developer of the game confirmed this version to the publication. Reuters. However, the reaction of Facebook and Twitter to the false publication has not yet followed.
And this video was published by pro-Ukrainian Telegram channels. The footage shows the city at night and armored vehicles being thrown with Molotov cocktails. The authors of the publication wrote that this is a video of how the forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine “warmly” meet the enemy.
In fact, the video turned out to be already in 2014, it was filmed on the Maidan. Later, they also wrote about the unreliability of the frames in the Telegram channel, where the video appeared. The same source published information about the evacuation of the village of Chertkovo in the Rostov region. Later, this topic was picked up by Ukrainian Telegram channels. However, the data turned out to be a fake, which the authorities of the Rostov region have already confirmed.
This video is from the Ukrainian city of Starobilsk in the Luhansk region. According to Western and Ukrainian publications, the Russian military destroyed houses and hit with multiple rocket launchers. However, the Russian Ministry of Defense said that this was a provocation. And the blow was delivered by Ukrainian nationalists from the Grad system, after which the fire.
And this is a picture with the caption “Do not go to Ukraine, death awaits you there,” which was published by the Minister of Defense of Latvia. In the photo – allegedly Russian troops who died near Gostomel in the Kiev region. But in the Donbass, these shots were immediately recognized. The Telegram channel “Yasinovataya. Donbass in the line of fire” writes that this picture is already seven years old. It depicts the fighters of the column of the 1st Slavic brigade of the DPR militia.