Video of woman accusing Ukraine of war crimes in Mariupol was a fake made by Russia's FSB spy agency
Related: Ukrainian refugee ‘interview’ about Azov atrocities was shot by the FSB. State media ordered to omit the source (Mediazona)
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Source: Business Insider
Video of woman accusing Ukraine of war crimes in Mariupol was a fake made by Russia's FSB spy agency, report says
Sinéad Baker Mar 31, 2022, 6:24 AM
A video appearing to show a woman in the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol accusing Ukraine-allied troops of war crimes is actually a fake and was created by Russia's security service, the independent Russian news outlet Mediazona reported.
Mediazona reported that Russia's FSB spy agency — the KGB's successor — was behind the video, and that it sent it to Russian state-allied media outlets for distribution and telling them not to report its instructions.
The video purports to show Lyubov Ustinova, which Russian media described as a refugee from Mariupol, accusing a volunteer militia called the Azov Battalion that is fighting for Ukraine of killing and brutalizing innocent civilians. Some Russian state media outlets shared it on March 24.
Mediazona shared screenshots of what it said were emails from the FSB to the media outlets, giving them the instructions. It said that the FSB sent the video to news outlets under the condition that the outlets do not say where the video came from.
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Read more: https://www.businessinsider.com/video-woman-accusing-ukraine-war-crimes-russian-fake-report-2022-3
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