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Mar 27, 2023, 21 tweets

GeoConfirmed UKR.

"2 Ukrainians stopped a car and fires a gun to scare a women and child."

❌This is not Ukrainian military❌
This video is made 30 km's behind the frontline.

Russian disinformation, but geolocation by @PStyle0ne1 is on point and GeoConfirmed.

🧵👇

1/13

WarGonzo distributed this video with this text.

Source: t.me/wargonzo/11636

2/13

Breakdown of the footage.

00:00 First frame:

Trees hanging over the road + electricity pylon with very distinct shape. Based on the orientation of the pylon, the lines follow the same direction of the road.

3/13

00:00, still in the first second:
Between the trees, we see another electricity pylon. This time perpendicular to the road. On maps the type of the pylon at this crossroad is not that visible, but the two pylons to the left and right confirm. This is an exact match.

4/13

00:06
Just before the car is stopped you see the shape of a crossroad.

And two distinct trees. (Orange and blue)
Before the orange tree you see some small bushes (pink)
To the left of the crossroad you see some white stones.

5/13

Let's add this up:

Look at the shadows of the orange and blue tree. They are 'spherical' trees, like in the video.

6/13

Let's take a look at the geography:

Also this matches.

7/13

But to be sure on of our members checked with commercial sat imagery, and guess what we see on the exact location as it should be?

8/13

Why we were looking in Russian occupied territory?

Besides the shady footage?

A women and a baby in some civilian car overtook a military column on a road that is to small to pass with two civilian cars?

Ukrainian flag, cross, uniform is to visible.

9/13

It's in the "frontline" zone, but they definitly don't act like it. Look how the first one holds his weapon. It's like he knows he is safe.

He is shooting his weapon in front of the car to scare a women and child for what?

And they both don't see the camera?

10/13

Location:

47.977044, 37.953754
XXG3+RG6 Makiivka, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine

11/13

GeoLocation by -and thanks to- @PStyle0ne1 💪



12/13

Conclusion:

❌This is Russian disinformation and they possibly used (and scared) a child for this.❌

13/13

We were informed that @Tatarigami_UA made a similar thread. (and before us)👇

Same conclusion.

Official propaganda/disinformation it is...

"#Think4Yourself #See4Yourself"

We did, thx for the advice!

15/x

Another good find.

Some local Ukrainians went to the crossroad.

t.me/m0sc0wcalling/…

Says enough.

17/x

Even Russian telegrams admitting it's fake.

"Video fake. Our crooked exercise. In carrying out such information operations, ours still has to learn and learn."

18/x
t.me/notes_veterans…

As pointed out by @EoghanCeol

Even the shadows are a match. After he start taking his turn around the car the shadow is visible on the car.

20/x

Video where you can see the soldiers shadow projecting on the car.

So the angle matches.
21/end.

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