Be careful with videos that, on social networks, claim to show the war in Ukraine.
A publication dated June 9, relayed by a Facebook account in French-speaking Africa, has been viewed several thousand times.
“Russian Helicopter VS Ukrainian Howitzer.
War looks like a sad video game as Putin plays with life,” writes the author of the post, translated from Creole.
On the document, helicopters in full flight are shot at.
Some crash to the ground.
In the comments, we find a majority of people admiring the Russian military force: “Russia is really invincible”, “Westerners, NATO and the USA facing Russia”.
FAKE OFF
This is not a video of the current conflict.
Besides, neither Ukraine, nor Russia, nor any other country is involved.
Because it is a simulation.
On YouTube, it is possible to find many such videos posted by Internet users who share their war video game exploits.
This is taken from a sequence of Arma 3, a tactical combat game developed by Bohemia Interactive, a company based in the Czech Republic.
The original video is approximately 9 minutes long and was uploaded on March 23, 2022 by a user who posts many videos of his gaming sessions. The description below the video states that they are "3 Ka-52 attack helicopters firing missiles at a military convoy”.
And to add: “I used Arma 3 to create this military simulation.
I really like making these videos.
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Many videos of this type have been hijacked since the start of the war in Ukraine – especially with Arma 3 – for disinformation.
We had already debunked some of these videos as early as February.
The company that designs this video game also posted a message on Twitter on February 25: "Beware that lately, many heavily modified Arma game videos have surfaced, labeled as videos depicting the current Ukrainian conflict. .
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