The Russian Foreign Ministry ended up deleting his tweet when the fake was shown. On March 27, the authority’s Twitter account posted a video accusing Ukrainian soldiers of beating a woman and her child. The video was filmed from a dash cam, a camera placed inside a vehicle. The car is driving down a tree-lined road when it is passed by another military-looking car. Two men in camouflage uniforms come out. One of the men approaches the car where the camera is. He speaks with the passenger, the exchange escalates, the passenger explains that she has a child that we hear in the background. The man finally walks away, firing a few shots into the air with his gun.
“Nazi one day always Nazi, tweeted the Russian Foreign Ministry commented on the video. This is the kind of terror Ukrainians live in: see the Ukrainian army berate and shoot a mother with a child in the backseat, calling her a “pig” and a “scum” just because she speaks Russian . »
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The video was filmed near from the city of Donetsk, an area occupied since 2014 by pro-Russian troops, thirty kilometers behind the front line, as found by the volunteers who run the GeoConfirmed Twitter account. A location that makes it impossible to find Ukrainian soldiers on patrol there.
In addition, the cameras inside the cars are prohibited for a year in Ukraine, in order to avoid disclosing troop movements, such as the remember the Bellingcat survey site.
The Russian Foreign Ministry is not the first account to have posted the video: Bellingcat found it posted moments earlier on a Russian Telegram channel.
Another Russian Telegram channel that relayed the video admitted it was fake after it was exposed, reports Snopes. The Russian Foreign Ministry meanwhile deleted his tweet. Before it disappeared, Twitter placed notes to recontextualize the video. However, it is still online on the Twitter account of the Russian Embassy in the United Kingdom.