BBC: Russian TV airs video game as Syria war footage
A tribute to Russia's armed forces on the country's flagship news programme mistakenly used footage from a computer game to illustrate military action in Syria.
Eagle-eyed viewers of the weekly Voskresnoye Vremya programme on state-run Channel One TV noticed that gun-sight footage of a truck being attacked was actually from the Arma-3 tactical computer game.
Sunday's report was a celebration of those who serve in Russia's armed forces, to commemorate last week's Defender of the Fatherland Day, praising "those who value duty and honour above their own lives".
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Update #1: Russian state media just mixed up Syrian war footage with a video-game clip (Washington Post)
Update #2: Russia Tries To Pass Off Video Games as Real Combat Footage. Again. (Popular Mechanics)
WNU Editor: The clip is very brief .... but the footage is at the 2:30 mark in the above video.
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