{"id":12339,"date":"2017-12-12T18:35:20","date_gmt":"2017-12-12T18:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/?p=12339"},"modified":"2017-12-12T18:35:20","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T18:35:20","slug":"militants-have-created-a-new-fake-and-are-developing-another-false-flag-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/militants-have-created-a-new-fake-and-are-developing-another-false-flag-operation\/","title":{"rendered":"Militants have created a new fake and are developing another false flag operation"},"content":{"rendered":"

On December 1, another information warfare operation has been launched on the Russian social networks, blogs and in the media aimed to intimidate and frighten the population of the occupied parts of Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts of Ukraine and discredit the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The operation continues to this day. All major websites and information resources of the pro-Russian militants have joined in, coordinating their actions with the Russian media.<\/p>\n

On December 2, InformNapalm volunteers conducted an analysis of the information component of this operation. We established how the information was spread on the web, who was at its source, and which major Russian media were involved in the first stage of its dissemination.<\/p>\n

Read more:\u00a0\u201cDPR\u201d militants and Russian media intimidate the population of Ukrainian occupied territories with new fakes<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

On top of the information component of the fake, we now look into the staged photos of the A1ZhD<\/strong> propaganda projectile used in the story.<\/p>\n

Why are the photos of the A1ZhD projectile staged?<\/h2>\n

We found four photos, which are used by the militants as the “evidence”. They show a projectile fired by 122-mm D-30 and Gvozdika guns to disperse leaflets on the enemy-held territory. For convenience, we combined these photos into one block.<\/p>\n

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There are a few details worth noting: the bottom plug is missing, the hole in the dirt is too shallow, the leaflets are in a tight unbalanced roll. All these factors indicate that the A1ZhD projectile could not have flown in like this – it was packed especially for the staged photo-shoot.<\/p>\n

In Donbas, both sides of the conflict \u2013 the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and the Russian hybrid army \u2013 are using such propaganda projectiles to drop leaflets over the line of conact.<\/p>\n

For example, on February 15, 2015, News-Front, a Russian propaganda channel, demonstrated a video in which a masked man in a clearly Russian accent talks in detail about the preparation of such shells for spreading leaflets over the town of Debaltseve. Note the rear plug, peculiar spreading method for rolling up of the leaflets and the remark that such a shell could “split a house”.<\/p>\n