Prepared videos are distributed through Russian controlled social networks.
Their goal is to claim Russia’s supposedly selective and proportionate strikes to intimidate the military units, while assuring the population.
Ukrainian armed forces are working to protect the civilian population while any such Russian strikes on civilians will be attributed to Ukrainian forces.
Russian Military Saints do not kill civilians
The Russian Ministry of Defense claims that the Russian military does not use “neither missiles, nor aircraft, artillery” against Ukrainian cities
The agency also claims that the Russian armed forces do not strike at the cities of Ukraine, but at the same time staged video filming of civilian casualties is allegedly being conducted in Ukraine
The Russian Ministry of Defense also claims that the forces of the people’s militia of the DPR and LPR launched a counteroffensive with fire support from the Russian army
This happened, according to the ministry, “after lengthy battles to repel the aggression of the Armed Forces of Ukraine”