Date of publication: 27 Apr 2022 • 13 hours ago • 1 minute reading • 32 comments The viral video has made the rounds of social media. Photo from Twitter
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The only target of Russian missiles in Odessa is terror. Russia must be defined as a sponsor of terrorism and treated accordingly. No business, no contacts, no cultural projects. We need a wall between civilization and barbarians hitting peaceful cities with rockets.
– Dmytro Kuleba (@DmytroKuleba) 23 April 2022
This video also featured sharing reports from The Guardian (here), the BBC (here) and the Hindustan Times (here).
Eliot Higgins, founder and CEO of Bellingcat, an organization with experience in digital research, posted on Twitter a side-by-side comparison of manipulated and authentic videos (here).
Reuters had previously demystified other cases of Zelenskyy’s digitally manipulated footage (here) (here).
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Modified. This clip has been digitally edited to include white powder in the office. The original video was posted on Instagram by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. This article was created by the Reuters Fact Check team. Read more about data control work here.
