UPDATE 14.11.2017, 17:34 CET:
The Russian Defense Ministry said that it is investigating its civil employee who attached wrong photos to illustrate its statement on the ISIS withdrawal from al-Bukamal.
“The Defense Ministry is investigating its civil service employee who erroneously attached wrong photo illustrations to its statement on interaction between the US-led international coalition and militants of the Islamic State [terrorist organization outlawed in Russia] near Abu Kamal, Syria,” the ministry said, according to the Russian state-run media agency TASS.
It also released released new photos:
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The post was originally released on November 14, 12:05 CET:
On November 14, the Russian Defense Ministry released a series of photos allegedly showing an ISIS withdrawal from the Syrian city of al-Bukamal. The ministry said that the US-led coalition assisted the ISIS terrorists withdrawing from the city.
However, the photos were fake. [UPDATE 13:03 CET: The photos disappeared from the Russian Defense Ministry’s Facebook and Twitter accounts]
1. The photo below was released by the Russian Defense Ministry on November 14. It was aimed to show an ISIS column withdrawing from al-Bukamal.
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However, it appears that the Russian Defense Ministry’s photo is just a part of the AC-130 Gunship Simulator video.
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2. Another photo is indeed from Iraq. It shows the US-led coalition airstrikes against ISIS near Fallujah.
The Russian Defense Minsitry’s photo:
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The original:
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3. The photo below is also a screenshot from the video “Iraqi Airstrikes Hit ISIS Convoy Fleeing Fallujah P. -2-“.
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4. Another photo is also a screenshot from the same video:
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5. And this photo is also a screenshot from the video showing airstrikes on ISIS in Iraq.
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It is not clear if this a mistake or something else. Were the Russian Defense Ministry’s social media accounts hacked? However, it’s clear that this undermines the report’s credibility.
By 13:03 CET, the Russian Defense Ministry had deleted the photos from its statement:
Excellent move!
I hope they wanna show that they can use also false reports!
As Israel is planning to bomb a military site after BBC reports, Russia provides video games screenhots . LOOOOL
this is a deliberate act of cyberwar against Russia by means of Facebook and Twitter. Waiting for an answer
I have played this game before. Its an older generation type game that was not well known.
Wasnt it on one of Call of Duty missions.
Nope, it was a whole video game dedicated to AC-130 gunship operations only. ‘Operation Devastation’ was the name.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AC-130:_Operation_Devastation
And people say SouthFront is biased or Russian propaganda lmao
As usual, SF is always neutral :)
Objective would be a better choice of word than “neutral”. “Neutral” smacks of “compromising” and any compromise with evil would still be “evil”
One cannot be “neutral” with FACTS or TRUTHS
Russia tries very hard to be “neutral” in its Syrian campaign, making great efforts to accomodate terrorists (US/ISISrael/SDF/Turkey/etc.) at the expense of its allies which every now and then get bombed and attacked by the terrorists.
This gaffe just plays right into the hands of the terrorists.
You may be right about Russia,but that does not negate the principle I asserted.To repeat: “One cannot be “neutral” with FACTS or TRUTHS”
It seems that the other pictures are from 2016 Iraqi air force.
Keeping up with the trend, hired some ukranians or americans lately? This reminds me of when the us govmn’t posted fake pictures of dead Bin Laden or the ukranians trying to prove russian army presence with a video game or the JIT’s mh17 investigation, lol.
The reptilians did it.
several months ago putin showed fake photos about syria. and they were american photos about afghanistan. big shame for russian intel. both fakes.
Same was, when US media shows pictures from Ru footages about bombing oil infrastructure of ISIS and claims that was coalition actions
I thing it is not a fail of the Russian intel, but just the way media wing of MoD is treated by other departments.
I knew such news would make you crawl out your hole
Putin does things including agreements without law makers awareness.Just like Lavrov their still have KGB mentality.Just as Russian sanctions against Turkey.When the sanctions were imposed everybody was involved
When the sanctions were lifted one man was involve. Their are also good liars.Either expelled USA to avoid fake fotos.
Had to be fake, how else would ISIS have retaken Albukamal as esaily as they did after both the Syrian coalition AND Iraqi PMU kicked them out. Should’ve let the Iraqis finish the job.
1º The reality is that ISIS withdrew from there and SAA entered in the city..later ISIS retake AB!…2º ISIS allows SDF to operate freely along east Eufrates river and to take oil fields and wheat lands without significant oposition!…thats the true!
Waiting for the official statement of the Russia regarding this.
Most likely case of hacking especially this can happen on Facebook.
If we also consider that Facebook, Twitter, Google, Yahoo, Microsoft provided data to Langley…
Not a hacking because now they are reporting “different photos” so incompetence and more lies on their part.
Support you on this. Too many times people get with too complex explanations and theories on an event, that is likely to have completely simple cause and down to the ground reasons. Incompetence, covered up with lies are simply these things that all human organizations tend to do. Simple, realistic — true.
So Russia Gate is truth but hacking of Facebook account linked to Russian DM is impossible, right?
Funny…
don’t worry, even among the sheerest of incompetencies, the fact that ISIS has been in bed with the US and its leading cabal is beyond any reasonable doubt.
I support Russia but their good liars playing Syrian game with USA and Irael.Selling best weapons to Syrian and Iranian Hezbollah enemies.Russian Syria allies get sanctuary outdated weapons like S-300 to nothing defence shield against patriot or aegis.
If USA or Israel attack Syrian troops their vanished and come later and play blame treathening game without any results.How many elections did USA interfered with. But Russia pleases Trump for good books instead of saying find out and do what ever you want we are already under your sanctions and incircling and threats.North Korea send Russia action plan letter if attack their turn around and passed the letter to USA intelligence and Trump.The leadership of Russia allowed USA to treat Russia like a puppet.
That’s why spies exists: to steal what’s the other produce in orther to increas it’s royalties. But sometimes we here BeeGees starting to joke.
Ive seen that video loads of times ,its so clearly fake ,i had an argument with some american who said it was real, the way the vehicles move and explode its so video game its ridiculous. US news tried to pass this off as real also, cant believe the Russians did too, if thats TRUE that is.
Only Nazi Alliance of Terrorist Organizations, Wahhabistan, Ottomans and Zio are allowed to use disinformation. The nerve of those Russkies! :D
and now russian credibility after this and before can be questioned
I think it might be a hacking but let’s see
Thanks for showing this news. Objectivity is very important for good news. Whatever reason Russia had to put this is wrong, and I glad the have realized about this. What I am worry about is the forbidden by USA to Russia bomb ISIS on the other side of Euphrates river ¿ why am I saying this ? Well, just look up the report of many terrorists moving to north part of Al-Bukamal, reorganize themselves, and moving back to the city to attack it. All of these things are seen by Russia spy satellite, drums, and planes, and Russia do not try even to send any helicopters (night vision) to stop them.
You can,t dismiss the current intensified Russian air assault on the Al-Bukamal area as capitulation of any sort. The war theater is much larger with many players and as we have seen they are trying to redeem something from nothing as in the SA v Lebanon manufactured front of the war as well as the failed Kurdistan plan.
I don’t belive in coincidence… now that zionist’s western media loose their credibility, now that their only choice is to recurr to censorship: a miracle! Exposed russian false documentation and void propaganda. Cui bono? Who behind these so simply to demistify products? Never I will believe russian intelligence is so dumb, but all we know about a fifth column inside Russia that work like a cancer
just an example
This is interesting. These videos apparently appeared only on the Facebook page of the Russian Ministry of Defence. They do not appear on the official Russian Ministry of Defence web page. I find it strange how this video footage from Western news outlets ended up on Russia’s ministry of Defence Facebook page. My take is that the video footage is a hack. It would suite the US agenda perfectly to discredit the Russian Ministry of Defence. Conclusion, it was a US hack by the US cyber army.
Good point.
The question is, why would Russian Ministry of Defence have a facebook account? Plain stupid.
My point exactly
The Russian picture mistakes are minuscule compared to the Jewmerican attacks on the SAA, hospital, mosque, wedding, baby milk factory, etc., that they claimed were “mistakes”.
Another thing to observe, how on Earth would the Rusian Ministry of Defence issue video footage in English? I have seen previous Ministry of Defence photos and video footage and they are in Russian Cyrillic characters. Conclusion. Definately a hack.
They don’t need to hack Russian Defence Ministry page on twitter or facebook lol. Its american companies, they can do whatever they want with every account on those social products.
pfft larov believed it and some russia channel.
Why would the Russian Defense Ministry have Twitter and Facebook accounts .
These were both started and funded by US intel.,… Russia wold know that .
Propaganda outlet ? ? makes no sense .
Ok guys. I contacted the Russian Ministry of Defence by email. The answer I got is that they truly released the statement, BUT THEY DENIED POSTING ANY VIDEO EVIDENCE. THEY PROMISED THEY WOULD INVESTIGATE THE REPORTS OF FAKE VIDEOS APPEARING WITH THEIR STATEMENT AND WOULD RELEASE A STATEMENT ABOUT THE MATTER. I’m eagerly waiting for that statement.
Looking closer at these photos and videos I realize some are footage from Sky News. Come on guys. Give me a break! Why would the Russian Ministry of Defence post footage from Sky News when it has spy drones all over Syria and more satellites than the US? Definately a hack.
mistakes can happen, no doubt. The fact that such mistake has happened on this particular subject isn’t very convincing though. foul play is possible, especially after it’s been stated that the news release have been handled by civilian employees.
Or simply a guy fucked up. Why is it so hard to believe that some one had bad day at job. Come on, these days “hack” became excuse for every fuck up in the world, looks like “the Hilary” virus took out the globe.
One thing is certain. By hooks and by crooks, Al-Bukamal needs to be totally under the Syrian government control. It is too vital for the Syrian people to let it fall into the hands of the US/Zionist imperialist colonial invasion forces, or worst still to hand it over to them. Now if the US broke the deal of the 15km no fly area around Al-Bukanal with the Russians, than Russia has the military means to assert its right over that area, even though no one gave Russia the permission to let the other regions of Syria to the East of the Euphrates river to the US either. So Russia better puts its act together and help the Syrian government forces take back what belongs to them, or it can go to hell.