Is it true that a video with the Ukrainian military, laying corpses in Buch, got into the network?

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A video scattered on social networks, in which the Ukrainian military with ropes drag dead people on asphalt, allegedly laying out corpses for the production of murders of civilians in Buchi Russian military. We tried to figure out what is actually happening on these frames.

According to the description to the video, published On April 9, 2022, the Ukrainian military lay out corpses on the streets of Buchi, to shoot them on video and accuse the Russian side of the murders of civilians on April 9, 2022. “According to the director’s idea, all corpses must get into the frame,” the message says.

As if anticipating the questions of incredulous readers about how the process of preparing for the shooting got on the video, the channel explains: for the report to the curators. “Why shoot the process of preparing a“ film site ”on the video? We will answer. Ukrainian information centers are part of the special forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and all their employees are military personnel who record their work for reports. Also, their commanders, who agree on the result, like all the big bosses, are often lazy to go to the place of filming, and approve the work remotely, modern technologies allow you to send the video anywhere. Then they were in such a hurry to send the material to the media that they sent all the sources. And in the editions of the media will they know what is happening in the frame there. They mounted and betrayed, ”wrote the Face Cemetery. This version was picked up by Russian Media, about 480 Telegram channels Shared This video, in total, gaining more than 2.7 million views.

In our analysis, we rely on the publication of colleagues from Factcheck.kzwho found the source of video frames and first wrote the material on this topic.

In the version of the Telegram channel “Face Cemetery” there are three obvious inconsistencies. First, the original video was published April 2, 2022 by the Associated Press (AR) news agency. According to the Video in the Archive of AR, the moment when the Ukrainian military pulls the body of the deceased with the cable, is described as follows: “Soldiers pulling body with Cable, Wary of the Body Boby-Traphed” (“Soldiers pull the body with the help of a cable, fearing that the body is mined”). The fact that Russian troops before departing from Buchi mined the bodies of the dead, He said President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, and secretary of the Buchansky city council Taras Shapropsky on April 1 warned Residents:

“A big request to everyone who remains in the city of Bucha: do not approach unfamiliar objects, do not go along the forest belt, do not categorically approach the abandoned military equipment, do not touch the bodies of the dead that have been lying for a long time, there is a high probability that they are mined.”

If the APU soldiers had to place the bodies on the desired points for the video, it would be more logical to drag the bodies with their hands, not a cable. Statements some Russian media that is supposedly “they are disgusting to touch their hands to the corpses of their fellow citizens, they disdain”, do not fit with statements The same publications on the cruelty and unprincipled fighters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

IN publications Media and on forums There are questions why the Armed Forces of Ukraine do not use, for example, uniforms of the sapper or armor, and in general, what kind of a strange method of clearance of corpses is to drag them using a rope. We talked with the sapper and an expert in the field of anti -mine activity in the conflict zones (he wished to remain unnamed). According to him, this is exactly how, with the help of a cable, they usually check the bodies of the dead for the presence of fragmentation mines. Presumably, the insufficient length of the cable or the absence of uniforms can be explained by field conditions: during the war there is usually no way to call a team of trained sappers or wait for the necessary equipment. The expert also suggested that the military Armed Forces of Ukraine simply do not have the proper preparation and knowledge of the security security protocols. He also gave examples of recent personnel, where the Ukrainian military does not carefully treat anti -tank mines, Brinkling their feet from the roadway and leading Civil cars passing through minefields.

Secondly, the approval of the “fake cemetery” that the video shot and posted the information center that is part of the special forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is also incorrect. As we already wrote above, the video was Published April 2 agency Ar. So, it was removed by the agency’s reporters (other materials cannot appear in this archive).

Thirdly, the version is in doubt that the APU soldiers “were in a hurry to send the material to the media that they sent all the sources”, and the media mounted and issued the material without understanding. The video published by the Face Cemetery lasts 13 seconds. And in full video, AR at the 31st second gives interview A resident of Buchi, who comments on the presence of the bodies of the dead on the streets and talks about how the military shot passers -by indiscriminately. Another hero of this plot at 01:41 tells About the murder of his friend: “A peaceful, honest person was, loved to work. And he was so simple, unscrupulous and consciously crushed to death the armored personnel carrier. ” If this video were mounted from the source of the video report, which the special forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine shot for commanders, it is not clear why they included in this report an interview with ordinary citizens of Buchi.

Thus, it can be argued that the message of the channel “Fake Cemetery” about the staging is an intentionally fabricated lie. The authors of the channel cut the full video AP shown in plot Freed.ua television channel, and came up with a false explanation of what is happening in the frame, providing history with details of erroneously sent video surveys of special forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Correction 14/04/2022: In the video, a resident of Buchi, who appears in the frame at 1:41, says in Ukrainian that his acquaintance crushed an armored personnel carrier, but does not specify, Russian or Ukrainian. When writing original text we relied on the decoding provided for site The Archive of the AR in English, which mistakenly says that the BTR was Russian: “16. SoundBite (UKRainian) Yuri (No Last Name Given), Bucha Resident:“ He Was A Resident, He Worked in Landscaping. A Peaceful Honest Person. A Smart Man Who Loved to Work. And they Simply, Shamelessly, and in Full Knowledge, Crushed Him to Death with a Russian APC (Armoured Personnel Carrier). The military on the basis of the words of a resident of Buchi who did not enter the video.

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