The Russian Foreign Ministry deleted a fake video in which the Ukrainian military allegedly offends a woman who speaks Russian

The official account of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs deleted a video in which the Ukrainian military allegedly offends a woman for Russian speech, the founder of Bellingcat Elliot Higgins drew attention on his twitter. This video turned out to be a Russian fake, they found out Osint analysts.

Details. The video on the official twitter of the Russian Foreign Ministry was available on the morning of March 28. By 11:30 Moscow time, judging by the Higgins post, the recording was deleted. The Foreign Ministry did not report the reasons for the removal of publication, the department did not admit that the video was Fakeov.

• The video is still available on the official page on Twitter, for example, the Russian Embassy in the UK.
• Some large pro-Russian telegram channels that published the video on the eve deleted it. The video on Tuesday afternoon disappeared from the channel of the military commander of the Komsomolskaya Pravda, Alexander Kots. There is a video left in the Rybar channel, but he had a “UPD: video turned out to be a fake”. Without changes, the post with the video left Readovka and Wargonzo.

Context. In accordance with the Russian law, the “fakes” about the war in Ukraine is entitled to criminal punishment under Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code. The maximum punishment on it is up to 15 years in prison. According to the ATS-Info, the defendants in criminal cases under this article became 152 people for the year.

• The video, which supposedly Ukrainian military offends the woman for saying in Russian, was diverged on the eve of Russian telegram channels. On the frames, a woman’s car is overtaking a car with a Ukrainian flag, people in military uniform come out of it, and after a woman answers them in Russian, they begin to insult her. “Once the Nazi is a Nazi forever,” the Russian Foreign Ministry signed the video. Even the day before, the pro-Russian telegram channel “Notes of the Veteran” admitted that the video is a Russian fake.
• The Postyle0NE1 user on Twitter found out that the video was shot in the Russian rear - in the area of ​​the city of Makeevka near Donetsk, controlled by Russia since 2014. This analysis was reprinted , including the GeoConfirmed account, specializing in geolocation.