On March 31 and April 1, Russian-language media and Facebook accounts actively circulated footage from an Al Jazeera report that they claim proves that the Ukrainian military was using ambulances to move around positions.

 

What does the Al Jazeera plot show and what do the Kremlin media say about Ukrainian soldiers?

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On March 31 and April 1, Russian-language media and Facebook accounts actively circulated footage from an Al Jazeera report that they claim proves that the Ukrainian military was using ambulances to move around positions. 

According to the Facebook page of Russia's Channel One, Channel One News and Sputnik Belarus , Al Jazeera's report included footage showing several armed servicemen getting out of an ambulance, which, according to Russian media, indicates that the Ukrainian military uses ambulances to move into positions. According to the media, the footage was filmed in the city of Irpin, Kiev region, which is fully controlled by the Ukrainian side.

Said footage with a similar description was also shared by several Russian-language accounts and Facebook pages, including: Adama Dosso , Olga Ionkina , Larissa Ignatova , Azor Ahai and People's Control . 

The footage from the Al Jazeera report is used by the Kremlin media to spread disinformation that the Ukrainian army is moving to combat positions in ambulances. In fact, the author of the report is not in the city of Irpin, but in one of the suburbs of Kyiv, and the Ukrainian military did not accidentally get into the frame, they were evacuating the wounded from the city of Irpin.

Russian media and Facebook profiles do not offer a translation of the report, which was released in Arabic. In addition, the full version of the Al Jazeera report is also not shown. The person we see in the footage is Al Jazeera reporter Mahmoud Zaibak. At the beginning of the full version of the inclusion , he notes that he is not in Irpin, but near the city of Irpin, in one of the suburbs of Kiev.

Zaibak also describes the process of evacuating victims from the city of Irpin. According to him, the victims are first taken out in ambulances to the suburbs of Kyiv, where special medical centers have been prepared for their reception (at this time, a tent is visible in the footage, into which the injured person is brought in a wheelchair) and then they are transported to the center of Kyiv.

According to an Al Jazeera reporter, the Ukrainian army is also helping medical workers in this process. 

After that, Zaybak points to several ambulances nearby and says that it was on these vehicles that they began to evacuate the wounded from the center of Irpin after the Ukrainian army regained control of the city.

Information about the liberation of the city of Irpin by the Ukrainian side spread on March 28. 

However, the Al Jazeera journalist also notes that the fighting around the city in the liberated territory, as well as mine clearance work, is still ongoing.

Consequently, the Ukrainian military was not accidentally caught in the frame, Zaybak himself points to the cameraman in their direction. Furthermore, the footage does not support the widespread claim that ambulances are being used by the Ukrainian army to move to military positions.

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