Russia Released Clear Drone Footage of Syria War Devastation

http://www.newsbharati.com/ Russia Released Clear Drone Footage of Syria War Devastation.

Russia posts Syria attack drone footage amid propaganda drive

Dramatic footage shot by team working for Russia’s state broadcaster purports to show Assad forces advancing into rebel-held suburb of Damascus

This dramatic drone footage from Damascus gives a chilling idea of the scale of destruction on Syria’s urban battlefields.

The footage, shot by team working for Russia’s state broadcaster VGTRK, purports to show Syrian regime forces advancing into Jobar, a rebel-held suburb of the Syrian capital.

The attempt to retake Jobar is one of several offensives launched by Syrian government forces since Russia began airstrikes to support ground operations by the regime, Iran, and Hizbollah three weeks ago.

Elements of the footage were first broadcast in a report from Syria on Russia’s Vesti news channel last Wednesday, but a full montage - including stylised editing and a techno soundtrack - was posted on Youtube on Monday.

Russia’s military and government spin machine has been working overtime to sell the intervention to the Russian public.

Much of the effort appears to be modelled on strategies used by Nato and other western governments during previous interventions in Iraq, the Balkans, and elsewhere.

Russia’s defence ministry, which was heavily criticised for a lack of transparency during Russia’s last official war, in Georgia in 2008, issues daily briefings including cock-pit camera and drone footage of strikes being carried out.

The briefings emphasise the “surgical” nature of strikes, consistently claim impressive results, and downplay reports of civilian casualties as “information attacks” by Russia’s enemies.

And they have sought to neuter western objections that Russia is mostly bombing anti-Assad rebels, but not Isil, by painting all anti-Assad forces as extremist “terrorists.” The “moderate opposition,” the argument goes, exists only in the imagination of American policy makers.

Meanwhile, correspondents from Russia’s tighty-controlled state broadcasters and pro-Kremlin newspapers have been embedded with Syrian government forces since before airstrikes began, and began sending in dramatic dispatches from the ground the moment the intervention was announced in Moscow.

That has been backed by pundits and talking heads explaining the necessity of the campaign. At one point state television even showed a weather forecast that predicted perfect weather for the bombing campaign.

Bellingcat, a citizen journalism group, has challenged many of the Ministry of Defence videos, saying that satellite photo analysis shows the MoD have occasionally lied about where strikes were filmed.

The group has highlighted two cases where videos purporting to show airstrikes on targets near the Isil terror-group’s stronghold of Raqqa, in eastern Syria, actually showed attacks on positions roughly 100 miles to the west.

Domestically, the spin seems to be working. Before the intervention just 14 percent of Russians said they backed direct military support for Bashar Al Assad’s government, according to a mid-September poll by the independent Levada Centre.

But a later survey by the same pollster released on October 8, one week into the air campaign, showed 72 percent of Russians backing airstrikes against ISIS/ ISIL



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