Fear and loathing in Ukraine: TV showed "furious battle" with US marines near Debaltsevo (VIDEO)
31.07.2016 - 3:06
Kiev media decided to shock the readers with «furious battle in Donbass» footage. We decided to add some shock for the Ukrainians by telling the truth about US marines participating in that battle.
«We dispose of a video of a battle between Ukrainian heroes and pro-Russian fighters in the area of Svetlodarsk Bulge», — reports 24tv.ua channel along with many others.
Video titled «Night battle on Svetlodarsk Bulge» was found on YouTube channel of some Ukrainian “patriot”, the channel has speaking name USNATOArmy.
«Terrorists and the Russian troops tried to capture positions taken by Ukrainian army, they employed heay artillery and tanks. The battle took place in Slavyansk direction according to Main Administration of Intelligence of Ukraine. This area is called Svetlodarsk Bulge. Assault attempt was filmed and successfully repelled», — reports Vinnitsa portal real-vin.com.
Ukrainian “patriots” went extatic over inevitable losses among the “pro-Russian fighters” and “Russian occupants”.
«Russian Spring» has found the original video which is fully identical. It is titled «SYRIA Night battle» and it was published in 2013.
But we were in great doubts rafarding cameraman working so calmly in the eye of a storm under the whistling bullets. So what was it? It turned out to be night strikeball battle with fluorescent tracer balls. The battle sounds were laid over and the picture quality was intentionally degraded.
Internet user claim that «video shows the American marines training with strikeball guns». We managed to find the initial video, it was filmed in 2009 in the USA. Its title is B.o.E Combat Airsoft Night Operations April 25th 2009.
Some Ukrainian “handy man” inversed the picture (there is mirror inversion function in many video editing applications), cut out the most believable moment, degraded the picture quality and overlaid battle sound. So that the Ukrainain “patriots” and the media could have a pice of a “victory” for themselves.
