Simulators in uniform

The Russian Ministry of Defense announced the allegedly identified facts of support for the Islamic state terrorists by the United States, publishing the images called aerial photographs as confirmation. However, the CONFLICT INTELGENSE TEAM (CIT) investigation group found that the pictures are not related to events in Syria.

"The operation to liberate the facts of direct interaction and support of the IS terrorists with the" International Coalition ", who was conducted at the end of the Syrian government forces, with the support of the Russian Air Force, with the support of the Russian Academy of Sciences with the Syrian government forces," said the Message page, which, according to the military department, were taken by Russian supporters 9 On November, it was stated that the images of the armed groups of IG, fleeing from the blows of Russian aviation and government forces, leave Abu Kemal in the direction of the Vadi-Es-Sabha crossing on the Syrian-Iraqi border.

However, in one of the pictures, the screenshot from the computer game "AC-130 GUNSHIP Simulator: Special Ops Squadron" was identified. Other personnel used by the Russian Ministry of Defense turned out to be taken from the video made by the Iranian drone, which recorded Iraqi on the Iraq under the El Falludge in June 2016.

After the emergence of these messages, the Russian Ministry of Defense deleted pictures from the publication.

In the evening, Interfax reports , MO announced that the photo was mistaken by a certain civilian employee of the department and an audit is now being conducted in relation to this employee. At the same time, the ministry assured that "the refusal of the US command to strike on November 9 on the columns of the IG terrorists, retreating in the Abu Kemal region, is an objective fact recorded in the regenifies and therefore well-known American side."

New pictures were placed on the FB page, designed to confirm US aiding with the Islamists. According to the department, these are "genuine photographs of the column of IG militants, heading towards the Syrian-Iraqi border."

In June, it became known that Vladimir Putin, in a four-part film-interview, showed Stone under the guise of shooting Russian attacks on the Islamic State in Syria in the attacks of the American Apache Helicopter on the Taliban in 2013 in Afghanistan, saying that "this is the work of our aircraft."

Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that the video is “the materials of the Ministry of Defense, part of their report to the president”, therefore, doubts about the authenticity are “incorrect and inappropriate”.