In March 2022, social networks bypassed a video in which several armed men were mocking a peaceful resident, and then shoot him and his wife. The signature under the video claims that we have Ukrainian fighters, and the case is happening in Chechnya. We checked how correct this attribution is.

Here is what is said in the English -language signature to an actively replicated video lasting 01:53: “As a reminder ... this is what the Ukrainian army was doing when it was on the Chechen land. They mercilessly executed the old man who read Surah [the Qur'an] "al-Fatikha" and his wife. Today everything turned over, and the Chechens entered [to Ukraine] along with the Russian army to take revenge on what the Ukrainians did with them. Distribute this so that people can find out the truth about Ukrainians. ”

Shots of a strict execution have gained particular popularity on Facebook (for example, there are publications on 1400, 255, 165 And 119 reposts as of March 22, 2022).

The first thing that can catch your eye on video is the military speak Russian without an accent. However, this in itself does not prove anything - as you know, in the eastern and central part of Ukraine, many residents own Russians perfectly. A much more strange assumption is that Ukrainian fighters fought in Chechnya on the side of the Russian army. It is knownThat just against the federal troops took part in the hostilities from several tens to several hundred (according to various estimates) of the Ukrainian military, and this was in the first Chechen war (1994–1996), and 1999 was indicated at the time mark. Nevertheless, there were Reverse cases, therefore, nothing is unequivocally approved here.

However, there is a much more significant argument in favor of counting the description under the video fake. The fact is that in fact, we have shots from the film "Search"Filted by Michel Khazanavichus. In 2014, an Oscar -winning director shot a drama about the fate of a Russian guy and a Chechen boy during the Second Chechen War. This film is not just artistic and is not based on real events, but is a remake of the same name American film of 1948 About the Second World War. The above episode is almost at the very beginning of the film: