Recently, a video was dispersed along social networks, which allegedly showed Russian mobile installations with nuclear weapons near the border with Finland. We checked whether the content of this video corresponds to viral publications.
April 4, 2023 Finland officially I became 31st member of the North Atlantic Alliance (NATO). Soon after, the network users began to distribute a video allegedly made in Vyborg, located About 40 km from the Finnish border. The viral video captures the movement of a certain military equipment in the residential quarter, on which flag Strategic missile forces (Strategic Missile Forces of the Russian Federation).
In Telegram, the video was most dispersed with the following signature: “After Finland joining NATO in the Border Vyborg, they noticed the mobile installations of Yao.” The channels wrote about this "Live broadcast"(637,000 views at the time of writing this analysis),"Putin in Telegram"(229 000),"Truthfulness"(213 000),"Scott Ritter in Telegram"(175 000)," Ostashko! Important "(and twice: 118 000 And 107 000), "What happened?"(105,000),"Ivan Utenkov"(100 000), Perepichka News (93,000), "Cartridge"(91 000),"True Russia"(63,000) and"Thoughts Kedmi"(51 000). Channel "Ukraine.ru"(95,000 views) clarifies that the Vyborg was noticed in the Mobile Strategic Missile Complex" Yars ". Another version of the authors of the channels "Own correspondent"(96,000 views),"DPR 🅉 info 🇷🇺"(55,000) and"Russia now"(49,000), where it is believed that an eyewitness was photographed by the movement of the intercontinental mobile missile system RT-2PM" Topol ". At the same time, in some publications, they ironically spoke about those who doubt the authenticity of the description of the video: “Maybe they are preparing for the parade? Or last year's video? And in general, is it not Vyborg? (We hear the sounds of panic on the other side of the border). ”
The viral recording also dispersed widely into Twitter And "VKontakte", Where the most Popular There was a version that the video shows Topol-M. So, in the public "I am for Putin | FUCK / ZOV »Post Sicked More than 16,500 likes at 142,000 views. The least popular option is that the Sarmat missile system was filmed in Vyborg (examples here, here And here).
On the automobile issue of the car in the front plan of the viral record, 33 regions are indicated that corresponds Vladimir region. The fact that this is not the Leningrad, but the Vladimir region, confirmed and FACECHERS, Specializing On geolocation. They found that the video was shot in the city Kolchugino on intersection Victory and Peace Streets, which can be seen in a five -story building with specific green balconies and a Magnit chain to the store located across the road. Place of shooting located About 1000 km from Vyborg.
To establish a factory project “Myths Detector” captured in a video of military equipment Contacted With a specialist in the armament of Giga Inashvili. According to him, the video shows the intercontinental ballistic missile system RS-24 Yars from the maximum range 12,000 km. The specialist clarified that such a system is not intended for striking on close purposes (in other words, it is pointless to deliver it to the Russian-Finnish border). This is confirmed by journalists Snopesas well as military experts Michel Yakovleff and Stefan Delori, interviewed by the project Les Observateurs TV channel France 24.
Experts note that the RS-24 Yars complexes are able to launch nuclear warheads. However, there is nothing unusual in the column of such a technician in Kolchugin. On the network you can find many video travel in the city of similar missile systems moving to Moscow to prepare for the Victory Parade on Red Square or returning from the parade. Inashvili also believes that the complexes that came to the video were probably preparing for the parade on May 9.
For example, on YouTube on May 13, 2015 Placed A video entitled “Return of the Technology from the Parade in Moscow through Kolchugino”, where the column moves near the same house, which is captured in a video that became viral in 2023. Another video of an eight -year ago, shot in the same place, Layd And in VKontakte. It was also possible to find a video with the movement of such a technician on chain 2012, 2016 And 2022 years.
The primary source of the video was neither to us or our foreign colleagues to determine, so the date of shooting is definitely not known. It can be either an old record or shot this year. For example, at the end of February 2023, the Russian Ministry of Defense reportedthat the column of PGRK "Yars" makes a march from the Ivanovo region to the Moscow Region to prepare for the military parade on Red Square. The route is at the same time Passed Through the Vladimir region.
The earliest publication of the video with the mention of Vyborg among those that were “verified” managed to find, appeared April 6, 2023 at 10:57 Moscow time in VKontakte, on the page users named Vladimir Dervenev. In a couple of hours the same record Loaded The supporter of the national liberation movement (NOD) Irina Ershova, while her video was later added to fast The public “NOD of the Events of the Official Page” for April 5, editing the initial publication.
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