Egyptian TV presenter: Yes, this is the Russian army! These are Russian weapons! This is Putin!
A curious episode occurred on Sunday on the Egyptian channel Sada el Balad. The famous Egyptian television journalist Ahmed Moussa shared with the audience his admiration for Russia’s actions in Syria.
“Russia did not beat around the bush. America was just playing around, not intending to slam ISIS. If anything, they patted ISIS on the back, financed and armed them. And the Russians did it! Yes, this is the Russian army! These are Russian weapons! This is Putin! Yes, they stand up to terrorism, they really stand up to it.”
However, such an enthusiastic perception of the situation played a cruel joke on Moussa. The journalist decided to support his story about the formidable and inexorable precision weapons of Russia not with real footage of attacks on militant bases, which the press service of the Ministry of Defense provides in abundance to everyone, but with graphics borrowed from a computer game. True, the game itself is a flight simulator from 2010 Apache: Air Assault – although it was dedicated to an American attack helicopter and released by an American video game publisher Activision Blizzard, but developed by a Russian company Gaijin Entertainment.
The journalist’s mistake provoked a lively response on Egyptian social networks, where users rather good-naturedly made fun of Moussa’s speech, without in any way casting doubt on the capabilities of Russian aviation in the fight against ISIS.
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However, this curious episode attracted the attention of such a serious publication as The Washington Post, which, completely in the spirit of Anatoly Shariy, with great enthusiasm exposed the fake of the Egyptian admirer of Putin. But Ahmed Moussa is still very far from his Ukrainian colleagues, who several times tried to pass off footage from video games as irrefutable evidence of a Russian invasion.
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