Amid a creeping information war waged against the civilized world on all fronts – in Ukraine, in Syria in the EU, it is crucial that the methods of this warfare are scrutinized to find an effective remedy and to reveal their malignant nature. One of the ways to fight back these hybrid attacks by the Kremlin is in-depth public enquiry into these acts, a job successfully done by the InformNapalm international volunteer community.<\/p>\n
When analyzing open sources it is often tough to define who has become the first in disclosing information; when one OSINT researcher checks up on hundreds of accounts while another person does not even acknowledge the source when using the already analyzed data. We will not be talking here about moral values; anyway these researches can be characterized as superior ones with a good analytical basis. Over and over again we see how the respected European media use the 3rd\u00a0parties’ data, which have a habit to just take our materials not mentioning the source and publish it as their own analysis.<\/p>\n
For example, the InformNapalm’s publication from January 23, 2016 presented fresh evidence of the presence of the Russian military in the outskirts of the Syrian towns of Slanfah and Salma (link<\/a>). On January 27, InformNapalm investigators found the Russian 34th brigade near Salma, as well as identified colonel Pankov, the 45th special forces brigade commander, on a still-frame image (link<\/a>). After a three week’s pause a German medium published a story, but with a reference to Moscow researchers, who, following the InformNapalm’s publication analyzed the same video footage, of the Russian ground troops found in Syria, which had long been familiar to the attentive readers for quite a while (link<\/a>). Several hours later the ‘hot news’ based on a ‘major score’ by the German portal and Moscow researchers was published by ‘Evropeiska Pravda’ [European Truth] (link<\/a>) and immediately reposted by ‘Ukraiinska Pravda’ [Ukrainian Truth] (link<\/a>).<\/p>\n It seems strange that some well-reputed European and Ukrainian media sites failed to apply more rigor and gave their readers an old story dressed up as breaking news. However, the matter is not the authoring priority, but rather that of the bias in intelligence and analytics in the Syrian and Ukrainian problems: Moscow tries to water down the information presented by blending it with a flow of irrelevant data to cover up important direct evidence. they feel convenient with and try to cover direct evidences behind a variety of indirect ones. We doubt that attempts to decipher ‘a Russian language speech’ on a video are more serious than identification of the concrete names and the Russian Army’s divisions. What is that supposed to mean? Is it an instance of obstruction or unscrupulousness on the part of information agencies about the information they are fed by the Russian ‘experts’ trying to dampen the wave of exposures?<\/p>\n Here we are going to analyze a video published in one of the Moscow agencies. This is just another Russian propagandist agency, which generates fake news on a regular basis. To confirm what is said in this article in the first paragraphs the InformNapalm research team has analyzed this video.<\/p>\n So, let’s have a look at the first video report<\/a>, which starts with a typical Syrian dialog in pure Russian accent. Does the video look like an air force operation announced by Putin? Not really. It rather looks like a typical ground operation.<\/p>\n