In Ukraine, the leaders of the pro-Russian secessionist “republics” of Donetsk and Lugansk published videos yesterday, Friday, in which they demand the evacuation of part of the population. They justify their decision by provocations which have been perpetrated for 24 hours by the Ukrainian side. But the metadata of these videos show that they were recorded on the 16th, before the start of the alleged Ukrainian provocations.
With our correspondent in the region, Regis Gente
This is a piece of evidence, very important, which tends to prove that the voltage rise is manufactured by the Russian side.
The video in which pro-Russian separatist leader of the Donetsk People’s Republic Denis Pushilin announces an evacuation of civilians in the face of the Ukrainian threat “today, February 18”, was filmed on the 16th, according to metadata (H/ T @kromark) pic.twitter.com/3oQgRdo7QP
— Philippe Berry (@ptiberry) February 18, 2022
By posting their videos on Telegram, a messaging channel widely used in the Russian-speaking space, the teams of Denis Pouchiline and Leonid Pasechnik, respectively heads of the so-called “people’s republics” of Donetsk and Lugansk, forgot that the files carried metadata. And in particular the date of creation of the file, in the video format “MP4” in this case.
However, the “properties” of the said files indicate that they were created on February 16, that is last Tuesday. According to Louis Pétiniaud, researcher at the Geode center, specialist in post-Soviet cyberspace, everything confirms that this metadata is very real. ” These metadata are relatively reliable, in the sense that they could be modified, but there is nothing to suggest that this is the case… And all the more so since Telegram is indeed the only, or one of the only applications, which allows you to keep this kind of metadata on creation date “, he explains.
So an amateur mistake. While the resumption of firing along the line of contact between the “secessionist” Donbass and the rest of Ukraine dates essentially from the 17th, therefore from Thursday.
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