Fwd from @ On the "captured" Sviatohirsk. Since official statements made several days ago about establishing control over it, no adequate confirmations of such an acquisition have appeared for several days. This claim initially looked extremely optimistic, since the nearest Russian Armed Forces positions are about 10 km away from Sviatohirsk through not the most convenient terrain. But we still left a small chance that some assault group could break through to the outskirts of the city and consolidate there, so we decided to wait for the situation to develop. And it did. Slightly earlier, on September 2, Sviatohirsk's Ukrainian head Volodymyr Rybalkin filmed a video near the city monument, confirming the continued presence of AFU in it. Apparently, after this, the Russian Armed Forces command on the ground, which submitted such a claim, began insistently demanding from above some confirmation of the successful breakthrough and capture of the city, so we received these two "wonderful" videos: ▪️One turned out to be old with overlaid audio on top. These frames were first published back on October 8, 2025 (you can view them following the fake one), from which they removed the watermark and overlaid different speech on top. And just appreciate the highway noise near a front-line city surrounded by forests. And even if the original frames weren't in the public domain, the fact of their age is revealed by the letter L on the monument, which hasn't completely worn off yet, whereas in the earlier Ukrainian video this letter has already essentially worn away, as well as different vegetation levels around the stone. ▪️The other video (third in the post) is even better, there an AI-generated soldier with a synthetic voice calls out Ukrainian authorities through a megaphone. To determine that this is neural slop, you only need minimal familiarity with the subject, but here the soldier was literally cut out from somewhere and pasted over the Ukrainian head Rybalkin from his video. So meticulously that even pieces of leaves on the tiles remained lying in exactly the same places, not shifting a centimeter over several days. And the previously restored letter L wore off again. We have already observed completely identical situations in attempts to prove control over Kupiansk and Borova. Only then were staged videos filmed in other settlements, which were passed off as the needed ones, which was immediately identified thanks to characteristic terrain markers. Apparently, deciding not to repeat the same mistake a third time, they decided to prove control of Sviatohirsk by simply creating fake videos from its territory, to make it harder for the surrounding area to figure it out. As we have repeatedly said - impunity always leads to permissiveness. And if we don't try to stop false reports and endless claims on credit, we will regularly get this kind of disgrace, which was previously engaged in by the Ukrainian "Skala" in Pokrovsk. Military Informant Original msg