At the end of October 2024, the Russian -language segment of social networks cost a fragment of television portage in German. Internet users argued that instead of real shooting, the gameplay of a popular shooter is shown in it. We checked the veracity of these messages.
In the video lasting about a minute, the German -speaking presenter talks about the situation at the front in Ukraine. Against the background, there are frames with advanced, in which, according to commentators, computer graphics are guessed. According to the video signature, fake reports from trenches in the Pokrovsky direction were provided by the Ukrainian military. Bloggers also call the primary source of personnel - the popular series of computer games Call of Duty.
Among the large Telegram channels, this video was published "KB"(228,000 views at the time of writing this analysis), Voblya (134,000), "Three heroes and Zelensky addict"(75 000),"The goat screamed"(67 000) and"Mordor's voice"(55 000). The video also spread in other languages - in particular, English, Arabic And Uzbek.
Welt (previously N24)-German socio-political TV channelbroadcasting since 2000. In viral publications, he was mistakenly called Die Welt - this name is one of the largest newspapers in Germany, belonging The same owners and uses the same logo. The design of the dice corresponds to the current design of the TV channel.
A military expert appears in the frame Guido Schmidtka In fact periodically introduces Spectators of the TV channel with the situation at the front in Ukraine. In the release of the heading with his participation of August 21, 2024 on the screen, you can see similar personnel for an expert - however, Schmidtka’s speech at that moment is somewhat different. Perhaps video recording has been used more than once by an expert in his speeches.
At first glance, personnel, due to specific graphics, really resemble an episode from a modern shooter. Through the reverse search for the image of the same Personnel You can find in the video on the official channel of the Ukrainian Azov brigade, which was published on July 15, 2024, under the heading of Azov, storms and cleanses enemy positions. The destruction of the invaders in the first person. " Three days later, a fragment of this video shared On its page on the social network X Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. The episode shown on the Welt air is circumcised from below - exactly to the logo of the Azov team.
At the same time, the original video “Azov” due to the higher quality of the image is much less like frames from a computer game. It can be seen that this is a real shooting with a certain feature of the settings of the camera or filters. Perhaps this is done specifically to achieve the effect of a first -person shooter.
The description of the video says that the shooting was carried out in the Serebryansky forest in the Lugansk region. There are others on the network Personnel From this forest, where active battles Go Since 2022 and which, due to constant shelling, has acquired a post-apocalyptic appearance. Some photos of the Serebryansky forest from Google Maps Also similar to shots from the "Azov" video.
Where did the hypothesis of Call of Duty come from? In the upper left corner of the viral video, the inscription @mehrwertwisssen is noticeable. YouTube channel with the same username exists Since 2022, he has more than 18,000 subscribers. The name MehrwertwisSen is translated from the German language as “more valuable knowledge”, and in the description of the channel, apparently, the purpose of its work is indicated: “make the obvious noticeable.” There it is also specified: "All this is a satire." However, besides frankly satirical Video, the channel is published and non -edited Fragments Of the real television programs, which, according to bloggers, look funny.
The video, which later became viral, was published In the MehrwertwisSen Telegram channel on August 21, 2024, one day with a video from Welt, the frames from which are discussed above. The publication of the satirical channel was accompanied by the signature: “The attack of Ukrainian troops or video analysis of Call of Duty? Source: YouTube Welttv, 08/21/2024, deleted. "
Two months passed, and the question of Call of Duty, posed by the German -speaking blogger, turned into a statement. October 26 is it distributed English -speaking users of the social network X, and two days later the video began reproduce And in Russia. So, having gone through a satirical resource, a genuine video from the report began to be massively perceived as shots from a video game.
Thus, there is no reason to say that the video used by the Welt channel is taken from a popular shooter. The source of the video is a record published on the Azov YouTube channel, and other personnel from the Serebryansky forest confirm such geolocation.
Photo on the cover: MEHRWERTWISSEN
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