The Russian Ministry of Defense has released a video that it says shows Ukrainian armored vehicles being destroyed.
Russia Claims They Blew Up Leopards, Was John Deere Instead
Credit: Twitter
June 7, 2023

Not only the worst propagandists in the world, but also the laziest. Internet sleuths took barely seconds to start their ridicule. So the Russians spent around $1.2mil to fire an R-77-1 air-to-air missile at a tractor.

Source: The Drive

The Russian Ministry of Defense has released a video that it says shows Ukrainian armored vehicles, including at least one German-made Leopard tank, being destroyed. However, the footage, which appears to have been shot via the targeting system on a Ka-52 Alligator attack helicopter, shows anti-tank guided missiles being fired on civilian farming equipment. This would not be the first time Russian officials have tried to pass off sloppy propaganda like this.

The footage, seen in the Tweet below, was released along with the official claims via Russian state media outlet RIA Novosti earlier today. The complete video contains two distinct clips. The first shows a number of vehicles in an open field, one of which is then targeted and destroyed by a missile. The second shows an indiscernible object also blown apart by a missile.

Though the clips are very low quality, experts and observers were quick to point out visible and distinctive features on the vehicles in the first portion of the footage that shows them to be combine harvesters and agricultural sprayers. The object in the latter portion of the video is more difficult to conclusively identify, but it appears small and certainly does not look like a tank.

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