The Russian Ministry Of Defense Has Been Lying

Russian generals are planning to seize Ukrainian villages.

Russian forces are no longer relying on “flag-planting” incidents: they now prove the capture of Ukrainian villages by posting videos of attacks on them. Since the beginning of September, the Ministry of Defense has reported the capture of 45 settlements in various regions of Ukraine, according to the Telegram channel “We Can Explain”.

Most of these posts were accompanied by videos showing drone strikes on Ukrainian Armed Forces (UAF) equipment and soldiers, aerial bombardment of villages, and artillery and MLRS fire. Not a single video showed the presence of Russian military personnel in the allegedly “liberated” settlements. There aren’t even any so-called “flag-waving” videos—that is, geolocated footage of Russian soldiers holding flags, which are usually shot from drones.

An interview with Russian military personnel who allegedly captured the village of Zelenaya Dibrova in the Zaporizhzhia region was recorded against a backdrop of trees—it is impossible to tell from the footage that they are in a populated area. According to the Ukrainian monitoring project DeepState, the village is located 12 kilometers from the point where Russian forces advanced the furthest in this area. A video about the capture of the village of Polnaya (10 km from the nearest Russian military positions) was filmed in a similar manner.

Reports of the capture of 10 settlements have been published without any accompanying video. Among them is Svyatogorsk, whose “liberation” was announced by Putin. After that, the commander of the 3rd Army Corps of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Andriy Biletsky published a video from Svyatogorsk. The Russian military resorted to “neuro-videos”—AI-generated videos that were supposedly filmed in the city. The Ministry of Defense did not publish them.

When reporting on the capture of the villages of Krasny Yar and Potikhonovo in the Kharkiv region, the Ministry of Defense used old footage—the same footage had already been used to illustrate the “establishment of control” over the village of Ivanovo in August, as noted by the Pepel Belgorod channel. The villages are located 15 kilometers apart.

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