Russia pushes false crisis actor claims about video from Bucha, Ukraine

Image caption: Russian agencies and officials posted false claims about a video captured from Bucha, Ukraine, on social media. PolitiFact. Article by Bill McCarthy. PolitiFact – April 4, 2022.

If Your Time is short

• The Russian Ministry of Defense and other top Russian officials claimed that a video of a car driving through Ukraine showed two crisis actors playing the role of dead Ukrainians in a staged massacre. On Telegram and Twitter, they claimed that the video showed one person moving their arm, and another person seen in the car’s mirror sitting up.
• The video does not show a person raising an arm as the car drives by; it shows a mark floating across the car’s windshield — perhaps a drop of water or a speck of dirt.

• The video does not show someone sitting up after the car drives by; it shows a stationary corpse through the lens of the car’s passenger-side mirror, which has distorting effects. […]

Click here to view original web page at www.politifact.com

Related articles:

Russia’s Bucha “Facts” Versus the Evidence – Bellingcat

Fact Check: Russia Claims Massacre in Bucha ‘Staged’ by Ukraine – Newsweek

Russian media campaign falsely claims Bucha deaths are fakes – The Seattle Times