A video circulating online claims to show US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller telling a reporter, 'There are virtually no civilians left in Belgorod,' supposedly justifying Ukrainian military strikes on the Russian city.
A video circulating online claims to show US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller telling a reporter,"There are virtually no civilians left in Belgorod," supposedly justifying Ukrainian military strikes on the Russian city. But the clip is altered, the department and the reporter involved told AFP; it combines footage from multiple press briefings, including an exchange that was, in fact, about US-Israel relations and the war in Gaza.
Miller appears to respond:"We're all witnessing the situation unfolding. We need to draw a clear line between what is a civilian object and what is not. We're aware that Belgorod, a Russian city nearly 45 miles from Ukranian Kharkiv has essentially no civilians remaining, it's practically full of military targets at this point, and we are seeing the same thing starting in regions around there.
"We have seen the Russian government execute videos like this in the past and use disinformation to fool their own people as well as people of other countries, but we don't have an assessment. It's something that people with a lot more technical expertise than myself are looking at, at this point. "The best thing that we can do is try to put out reliable information to the people the United States, the people of the world, every day, and to quickly call out disinformation when we see it."
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