The Center for Strategic Communication said that a report on the military capabilities of a Russian mortar carrier inadvertently exposed it to Ukrainian forces.
A video that appeared to show the mortar carrier being blown up was posted on Sunday along with a thank you to Russian propagandists.
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The vehicle was lured out of its position by the Ukrainian government agency.
This was the first time that this class of mortar carrier had been taken out in the war.
The Russian journalist who made the initial report has rejected the idea that his video coverage led to the destruction of the vehicle.
"Let's observe informational hygiene and ignore such literary defecations, covering our noses in disgust," wrote Kots on his Telegram channel in response to the Ukrainian claims.
The mortar carrier left the location before his team departed, and the footage of the Tyulpan getting destroyed shows a different area than the one where he and his crew filmed the vehicle.
There were clips of Tyulpan firing rounds near the Ukrainian city of Severodonetsk. In his caption, he wrote that Ukrainian forces were beinghammered by the mortar carrier and that it was being used to destroy a bridge.
The Russian outlet Komsomolskaya Pravda often repeats the Kremlin's war rhetoric, such as the baseless claim that Ukraine's leadership has been infiltrated by Nazis scheming against Russia.
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