DISINFO: Ukrainian soldiers shot a car with a woman and a child for speaking Russian
SUMMARY
On a the country road, Ukrainian soldiers stopped the car of a woman because she allegedly overtook a moving convoy. One of the soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine began to scold her in a rude manner, not paying attention to the presence of a small child in the cabin. When the mother tried to reprimand him about this, the military man became furious because the woman spoke Russian to him, and shot the car, after which he left, leaving the woman and the child in hysterics.
RESPONSE
The video capturing the alleged incident was staged. OSINT-researchers from the GeoConfirmed project managed to find the location of the shooting, using the power line pylons, which are visible in the first seconds of the video, as well as the shape of the trees and bushes that fell into the frame. They pointed the location to Makiivka, a city in the Donetsk region that borders Donetsk and has been controlled by Russian troops since 2014, 30 km from the front-line.
Exact location: 47.977044, 37.953754 XXG3+RG6 Makiivka, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine.
The conclusion by GeoConfirmed: This is Russian disinformation and they possibly used (and scared) a child for this.
The Russian Foreign Ministry's official Twitter account removed their initial post claiming "“Ukrainians live in such terror: see how the Ukrainian military scolds and shoots a mother with a child in the back seat, calling her a “pig” and a “bastard” simply because ... they speak Russian. They say no Nazis…” , points out The Insider. Several pro-Kremlin telegram channels recognized that the video was staged, Meduza has found.
Russian state media have a track record of manipulating with video images and footage - see our review here: "Lighting fire to emotions with lies".