🇸🇾 - A jihadist holed up in the crusader castle and world heritage site Krak des Chevaliers, firing HMGs mounted on a technical towards the Christian towns Anaz/Hwash, claiming they are targeting Shabiha (Assadist militant) positions in May 2013 during the Syrian civil war.
Naturally they'd say they're targeting military positions to save face in international media, but the number of murdered & injured civilians spoke for itself.
🇸🇾 - A jihadist holed up in the crusader castle and world heritage site Krak des Chevaliers, firing HMGs mounted on a technical towards the Christian towns Anaz/Hwash, claiming they are targeting Shabiha (Assadist militant) positions in May 2013 during the Syrian civil war.
Naturally they'd say they're targeting military positions to save face in international media, but the number of murdered & injured civilians spoke for itself.
The channel appears to be part of the broader information war that has developed following Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The Kremlin has paid Russian TikTok influencers to push propaganda, according to a Vice News investigation, while ProPublica found that fake Russian fact check videos had been viewed over a million times on Telegram. Artem Kliuchnikov and his family fled Ukraine just days before the Russian invasion. Ukrainian forces successfully attacked Russian vehicles in the capital city of Kyiv thanks to a public tip made through the encrypted messaging app Telegram, Ukraine's top law-enforcement agency said on Tuesday. The fake Zelenskiy account reached 20,000 followers on Telegram before it was shut down, a remedial action that experts say is all too rare. As the war in Ukraine rages, the messaging app Telegram has emerged as the go-to place for unfiltered live war updates for both Ukrainian refugees and increasingly isolated Russians alike.
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