At the end of May 2024, the media and social networks were encouraged by a video on which an American official states: there are many military targets in the Russian city and there are almost no civilians, so the United States will not against the use of American weapons for Armed Forces of Ukraine in the border regions of the Russian Federation. We checked the authenticity of this video.
The record with the alleged performance by Matthew Miller lasts 49 seconds. and is distributed in two versions: with Russian -speaking subtitles and Without them. The video shows a certain press conference at which the official representative The US State Department answers the journalist’s question and supposedly says that there are practically no civilians left in Belgorod and that “there are a lot of military facilities.”
According to the TGSTAT service, at the time of writing this analysis, about 300 viral video posts and Miller’s alleged statement appeared, which have gained more than 2 million views. For example, a media manager wrote about this Kristina Poddchik (20,000 views), "militarycate" Alexander Kotz (10,000, the post is deleted), the publication "Notepad" (twice: 65 000 And 28 000, the second post is deleted), channels Colonelcassad (266,000), "Ne. Sahar"(239,000),"Observer"(173 000),"Ukraine.ru"(110 000),"What happened?"(75,000) and others.
Head of the Presidential Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights (HRC) Valery Fadeev answered Miller's alleged statement, saying that the representative of the US State Department is lying. “We are registering for all attacks on civilian objects and population. And in the Belgorod region, it is this: 18,000 apartments and houses have already been destroyed or damaged, more than 300 social objects and about 200 industrial facilities of peaceful purposes have been damaged, 175 people were killed, almost 800 was wounded. I do not really expect that this information will be brought to a cynic from the State Department, but the truth is in any case, ”said Fadeev. About the comments of the head of the HRC told State news agency TASS. In an interview with News.ru, member of the Council of the Federation of the Russian Federation Dmitry Rogozin Commented The distributed statement by Miller is as follows: “As far as we know, in Washington, New York, Berlin, Paris and Warsaw, not to mention Kyiv, there was no civilian population. There are continuous military facilities. ”
At the beginning of the video, it is shown how Miller addresses the journalist (according to the subtitles, his name is John), and then such a dialogue occurs between them:
Journalist: “You have already outlined the US position on this issue, but you did not say what you think about other countries. Already ten states allowed the use of their weapons to hit goals deep in Russia. Will they be able to beat military facilities? "
Miller: “We all see how the situation is developing. We need to draw a clear border between what is a civilian object and what is not. We are aware that in Belgorod - the Russian city, located about 45 miles from the Ukrainian Kharkov - there are practically no civilians left. At the moment, it is almost full of military targets, and we observe how the same begins in neighboring regions. It is necessary to make it clear to Russia that this is unacceptable. So we will support our allies in everything, no matter what they decide to do, and, perhaps, we will help hesitant to make the right choice. ”
If you believe the video, while the journalist asks the question, the American official managed to change clothes. At the beginning of the recording on Miller, a white shirt and a blue tie, and he responds already dressed in a blue shirt with a purple tie. In addition, the movements of the official of the official do not always coincide with the words spoken by him.
“Verified” suggested that the viral video was mounted on the basis of records of two different press conferences, and studied the broadcasts of daily briefings for the press, available on YouTube channel US State Department. In the blue tie Miller He performed May 9, 2024 - a fragment corresponding to the first third of the viral roller (00: 00–00: 16), begins at the time mark 30:18. However, a journalist, who, according to the transcript, Miller He called it Josh, asked not about Belgorod and Ukraine, but about Rafaha and Israel. Moreover, the question was longer than what was asked in the viral video, so the installation authors had to cut an extra video sequence with a journalist, as well as change the movement of his lips with the help of a neural network. The original question is Sounded So:
“I wanted to clarify some of what you said at the very beginning. It seems to me that I heard how you said that there are certain types of military systems that we will not provide Israel for use in a campaign in Rafaha. Does the presidential statement exclude the supply of these or similar weapons to Israel for use in other areas during this period of time? ”
In a blue shirt with a purple tie Miller talked With the press during a briefing on May 28. Comparing the movements of the head and hands, it was “verified” that the rest of the viral roller (00: 16–00: 49) corresponds to a fragment that begins in the official broadcast at about the mark 30:03. In the original, the official answered questions from the correspondent of the publication Al Arabiya Nadi Bilbasi - They, as in the first case, concerned the theme of the military conflict in the gas sector and the humanitarian crisis that has developed in that region. The journalist also asked to comment on the opinion that Israel makes genocide in relation to the Palestinian people. In response, Miller He called it The humanitarian situation is terrible and said:
“We did not count and do not think that Israel performs genocide. None of the fact that they (the Israelis. - Approx. Ed.) Did, does not correspond to the legal definition of this concept, and we saw how they took steps to allow the delivery of humanitarian assistance. We saw how they took measures to try to minimize damage to the civilian population. As we have already said, when we published a report by the National Security Memo 20, there are Israeli lawyers who are integrated into the processes of targets and have the opportunity to give binding orders to block shocks for certain purposes. So all this is taken into account when making such a legal verdict. We simply do not fundamentally consider their actions as such and do not think that the facts generally confirm this. This does not mean that there were no huge human suffering. Of course they are. And in many ways it is the fault of [group] Hamas, which continues to hide behind the backs of civilians. And of course, in many ways this is the fault of Israel, which should take additional steps in order to minimize damage to the civilian population and reduce its suffering. And this is what we will continue to achieve from him. ”
According to the transcripts, neither Miller nor journalists talked about Belgorod not 9, not 28 May. But one of the questions concerned the Kharkov mentioned in the fake, or rather, impact According to the construction hypermarket "Epicenter" in this city - as a result of an attack on May 25 Died 19 people. By versions Russian intelligence, the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces were stored in the building, there are no evidence of this information. “In this context, we heard very convincing voices from the allies regarding the abolition of all sanctions on weapons. NATO Secretary General said that the time has come to do this. The Baltic countries say it is time to do it. Poland talks about it. Britain talks about this. The US Congress talks about this. So says the Helsinki commission. Are they all mistaken? " - asked question journalist. In response, Miller saidthat the United States continues to see how Russia brings intentional blows to civilian facilities where there are no Ukrainian troops, so the States will continue to support Ukraine, supplying it weapons. “As for our policy, I spoke about this last week and the Secretary of State talked about it. Listen, our policy lies in the fact that we do not encourage and do not support blows outside the borders of Ukraine, ”the State Department speaker emphasized then. However, soon the American press appeared messagesthat US President Joe Biden secretly (and with reservations) allowed Kyiv to strike with American weapons.
The authors of installation with the help of the neural network changed the words not only to the journalist, but also to Miller. If you look closely, then in some fragments of a fake record you can even see how, due to the imperfection of the technology used, the representative of the State Department changes the position of the teeth.
The earliest publication with fabricated videos among those that were able to track "verified", we found in the pro-Kremlin Telegram channel "Freshness"(5900 views). There the post appeared on May 30, 2024 at 13:09 Moscow time, but was removed after 24 minutes. At 13:10 a similar record posted the channel "IA Red Spring"(1100 views). This is previously Information agency and channel "Freshness»Repeatedly became distributors of misinformation associated with the USA and Ukraine.
Note that Kot has deleted his post about the fake statement of Miller and brought An apology for the publication of unverified information. “The Secretary of the State Department of the United States did not say that there were no civilians left in Belgorod. The video was generated by a neural network. But statements from all sides in the last days are so monstrous that even a fake is perceived as an ordinary statement. Life is the best playwright, ”wrote the military. Called Miller Fake and the Prochremlin Canal Fake Control, the description of which reads: "Separate the truth from fakes." The authors of the resource also said that the video was created using the neural network, and said that the fake was published "related to Ukraine Telegram channels." Which channels (for example, of the mentioned in this analysis) are connected with Ukraine, Fake Control did not specify.
Thus, administrators of large Russian Telegram channels distributed a fake video with words that the representative of the US State Department did not utter. Accordingly, the head of the HRC Fadeev and Senator Rogozin commented on the fictitious statement of the American speaker.
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