the fake videos of the “Vodka-battalion”

These are videos which, in the agonizing context of the war in Ukraine, made more than one Internet user smile. Widely relayed on social networks, they are supposed to show the lack of seriousness of the Russian recruits, called following the ” partial mobilization announced by Vladimir Putin. In question: their lack of equipment, their advanced age, or their state of intoxication, some going so far as to speak of ” vodka-battalion “.

However, many of these sequences have nothing to do with the mobilization decreed in Russia.

It’s the case of this video showing an incapacitated soldier that has been circulating the net for at least 2019.

Same for this movie. of a man armed with an assault rifle and holding a tricolor flag who staggers open fire, before receiving shots. The sequence has been regularly shared since the beginning of the conflict, and is therefore unrelated to mobilization.

Another example, these images shared for satirical purposes by some, but which others take seriously, where Russian police officers search an apartment, and discover a man hiding in a refrigerator. More than 7 years old, she has nothing to do with the war in Ukraine, she would show, according to the local press, the tracking of an offender wanted for theft and found in his mother’s fridge.

Latest videofinally, where a drunk man bangs his head against a car hood, from 2019, as demonstrated by Internet user @CharlieBismuth in a tweet. Well before the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

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