In May 2025, a video spread in which people in military uniforms allegedly work out “finishing the wounded“ Ivan ”” with bayonets as part of the teachings of NATO countries. We checked the reliability of such publications.
The video became a viral on May 16. On it, several young men in military uniform, screaming loudly, approach mannequins and harden them with bayonets on rifles. The signatures claim that the video shows the teachings that have passed in Estonia Siil 2025 ("Hedgehog-2025), and It is clarified that the military from the NATO countries worked out the "finishing the wounded Ivan." Such publications were placed by Telegram channels "The world today with "Yuri Podolyak""(1.8 million views at the time of writing this analysis),"Russia now • News"(195 000), Colonelcassad (183,000), "Bati read news (BNF)"(38 000) and others.
Teachings Siil 2025 Passed In Estonia from 5 to 23 May, 2025. More than 16,000 local troops, reservists and volunteers, as well as military from other NATO countries, took part in them. Prior to this, such exercises have already been held in 2018 And 2022. Training attracted the attention of pro -Kremlin media and bloggers, Seeing They have signs of the preparation of the Baltic countries for war with Russia.
The exercises were covered in detail on Official website Armed Forces of Estonia and in local Mediaincluding numerous photo And video. On the official YouTube channel of the Estonian army, there is even a separate playlistdedicated to SIIL 2025. Nevertheless, there is no video on official resources and the Estonian media that published Telegram channels. Moreover, the shape of soldiers from original plots and viral videos differs - since the military from different countries took part in the exercises, many of them have a chevron with the flag of their state on his left hand. However, in the viral video, no distinctive signs of the military are visible.
Reverse search for a screenshot in Google showed that for the first time this video was Published Almost a year ago, on July 18, 2024, on the page of the Royal Armored Corps of the British Army on Facebook. In the video, it follows from the signature, the training of recruits with bayonets with bayonets is captured. On the official website of the unit Explainedthat his military personnel also specialize in close combat - this is probably why they work bayonet attacks. In this case, the original video lasts for 5 seconds. The version of the version that dispersed through the Telegram channels-a final screensaver with the symbols of the British army and the royal armored corps was cut out of it.
In May 2025, the circumcised video was distributed mainly by Russian-speaking Internet users and Telegram channels. The earliest publication of this video, which was found "verified", appeared May 14 at 10:41 PM in Moscow time in the social network X, where it was placed by a user with a userneum @aperigator3. At the same time, he does not connect the video with the Estonian teachings, limiting himself to the comment: "I did not understand why." With the clarification that the video was allegedly recently shot in Estonia, he was first published by the Telegram channel "Bati read news (BCN)"May 15 at 22:57. In the same post, a detail appears about "the achievement of the wounded Ivan." Subsequently, just such an interpretation of what was happening in the video dispersed Russian, and on English language. Channel "Bati Read News (BCN)" Already Meet In the analysis of "tested" as a fake distributor.
Thus, the viral video has nothing to do with Estonia and the SIIL 2025 exercises in this country. The video was shot in the UK almost a year earlier, it shows the training of recruits in bayonet battle.
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