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The Russian MoD published videos of “successful strikes” on the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kursk region. These videos were filmed in July in Ukraine. (i.imgur.com)

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The Russian Defense Ministry has published videos of “successful strikes” on the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kursk region. These videos were filmed in July in Ukraine

Thus, the state agency RIA Novosti, citing the Ministry of Defense, published a video of how “Russian Mi-28NM helicopters launched S-13 air strikes on Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel and armored vehicles in the border area of the Kursk Region.” As The Insider writes, the video was actually filmed in Kremennaya and Chasovy Yar — the publication publishes the coordinates of where it was filmed.

On August 9, the Defense Ministry published another video showing a supersonic Su-34 fighter-bomber hitting a FAB-3000 air bomb “in one of the districts of Sumy Oblast bordering Kursk Oblast.” However, the same video was posted by the state agency TASS on July 14.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The Russian people will be clueless until some Ukrainian madlad plants a flag on the rubble of the ministry of defense.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Over 100 years since WW1, and still the same

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (3 children)

How do people just go "hey, I recognise that field!"?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The war with russia has few silver linings, but one of the shinier ones is that it's finally given a practical outlet for the Geoguesser nerd's highly trained skills.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Because someone knows about it and a lot of people are looking at it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You could easily run the images in news releases through machine learning and it should be able to pop out images with similar patterns.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Here you go: https://picarta.ai/

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

You know, I have to say that some of this stuff makes me maybe a little more sympathetic to some Russians who didn't believe that the satellite footage of the cross-border shelling of Ukraine was real. At the time, I thought that they were just intentionally discarding stuff in front of their eyes because they considered it inconvenient, but I suppose if you're accustomed to your ministry of defense pulling stuff like this, the idea that someone else's might fabricate footage doesn't seem as far-fetched.

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I could definitely believe that the state-run media or some blogger would do this, but I'm surprised that the ministry of defense would. I'd think that -- especially during a war -- maintaining credibility would be important. And the falsified information doesn't seem to be of any great value. I mean, I'm sure that sooner or later, they'll have some kind of legitimately successful strikes in Kursk. It seems like a simply insane tradeoff to get footage out a bit sooner.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

Russian propaganda doctrine is about attacking the very concept of truth itself -- they want people to think "I can't know what's true", so that they disengage politically and leave the ruling to the ruling class.