Russian propaganda has once again resorted to a familiar tactic, producing a staged video and attempting to present it as a “sensational exposé”. This time, the footage allegedly shows Ukrainian soldiers operating “mobile crematoriums” and burning the bodies of their fallen comrades. Despite its dramatic premise, both the content and presentation of the material reveal yet another crudely fabricated fake, devoid of logic, facts, and any understanding of how the Ukrainian military actually operates. This was reported by ArmyInform.

According to ArmyInform’s analysis, the published video contains no verifiable information whatsoever. It is unclear where the footage was filmed, there are no identifiable landmarks or location markers, no genuine participants can be confirmed, and the so-called “witnesses” speak in vague, formulaic phrases that resemble lines from a poorly staged production rather than authentic testimony.

As ArmyInform notes, such claims are either deliberate falsehoods or evidence of a complete misunderstanding of what military brotherhood means in the Ukrainian armed forces. For Ukrainian soldiers, a comrade-in-arms is never treated as expendable. Fighting for every serviceman, recovering the bodies of the fallen from the battlefield under fire, and conducting exchanges of remains are painful but everyday realities of war. For this reason, the story about allegedly burning their own fallen comrades appears absurd to anyone who has encountered the realities of the front line or spoken with military personnel outside the lens of a television camera.

This fake is an example of psychological projection, whereby Russia attempts to attribute its own actions to Ukraine. It is the Russian military that has repeatedly left the bodies of its soldiers on the battlefield, concealed its real losses, destroyed evidence to avoid compensation payments to families, and treated its servicemen as disposable resources. The imaginary “crematoriums” therefore emerge from the worldview of Kremlin propagandists themselves – they judge others by their own standards.