00:00Про-Кремлин дисinformation
00:02Claims Ukraine is sending
00:04Orphans to clear mines
00:05A Russian
00:09Influence campaign is
00:11Falsely accusing the Ukrainian government
00:14Of using vulnerable groups
00:16Such as orphans, people with
00:17Disabilities and elderly civilians
00:20To clear landmines
00:22Perhaps most shockingly
00:24The propagandists falsely
00:26Attribute the so-called
00:27Revelations to investigative media
00:30Bellingcat and its journalist
00:31Galen Reich. This video which emerged
00:33In early September claims that
00:35Bellingcat confirmed its findings
00:37By reviewing satellite imagery
00:39That showed civilians in mined areas
00:41Of Ukraine. This video also
00:43Includes a screenshot of a Bellingcat
00:46Article which allegedly
00:47Recounts the investigation
00:49The Bellingcat article in question
00:51Does exist but in fact
00:53It tells the story of workers for the
00:55Halo Trust, an NGO that clears
00:57Landmines and other explosive devices
00:59From conflict areas. Bellingcat
01:02Confirmed to Euroverify that the claims
01:03Made in this video are not based on the work
01:06Of Bellingcat or Galen Reich
01:08The video also includes a quote
01:10Attributed to the director of
01:12Age Concern Ukraine, Galina
01:14Poliakova, who the propagandists
01:16Claim told Bellingcat's Reich
01:18That the Ukrainian military had been taking
01:20People from wards to send
01:22To the minefields. But Poliakova
01:24I told Euroverify that this was a lie
01:26And that she had never been interviewed
01:28By a Bellingcat journalist
01:30Our research showed that the video began
01:32Circulating rapidly on X
01:34On September the 5th. We estimate
01:36That on X alone it's been viewed
01:38More than 10 million times. The logo on the video
01:40Can be traced back to the Russian
01:42Foundation to Battle Injustice
01:44Founded by the former Wagner
01:46Mercenary Chief Evgeny Prygotsin
01:48In 2021. This organisation
01:50Is behind several disinformation
01:52Campaigns targeting Ukraine and
01:54Europe and has been sanctioned in
01:56The European Union
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