Russia has been exposed faking yet another staged video, this time showing a bogus invasion by Ukrainian troops into Russia. The Russian Ministry of Defense went as far as confirming the bogus incident and Russian state media presented the footage as legitimate to their viewership.

Russia claimed that two Ukrainian infantry fighting vehicles were destroyed and five Ukrainian troops were killed in the incident, while the Ukrainian government denied any such incident took place. The farfetched misinformation campaign suggested a lone Ukrainian reconnaissance team (using slow armored vehicles and identifiable combat uniforms in their stealthy recon mission) somehow managed to roll, unopposed, through Russian proxy-held Donbass and assaulted through the Russian border where they were immediately eliminated by Russian border defenses.

The footage itself shows dismounts acting as if they are engaged in battle, and while explosions and gunshots can be heard around them, none of the audio suggests any rounds are actually being fired at them.

The footage was quickly dismissed as a hoax by Stein Mitzer, a Dutch researcher specializing in military weapons and equipment. Mitzer pointed out that the vehicles, although painted to look like Ukrainian BTRs, were actually the BTR-70M variant which is fielded by Russia and not the Ukrainian military, confirming the footage as a false flag.

Earlier this month, US intelligence revealed that Russia will be creating such hoax videos depicting "graphic scenes of a staged false explosion with corpses, actors depicting mourners, and images of destroyed locations and military equipment." The phony media productions are intended to set a pretext for further invasion of Ukraine.