A video with the alleged body of captured Australian volunteer Oscar Jenkins, who fought on the side of Ukraine, has spread online.. It was alleged that the man was tortured and then executed by Russian occupiers. However, journalists found out that the footage of the bodies of the fighters, including Oskar, was actually filmed in Nagorno-Karabakh several years ago.
This was reported by " Info" Oscar was captured in the Lugansk region and has had the status of a prisoner of war since December 16 - information about this was provided by the command of the Ground Forces of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
On January 15, some foreign media outlets disseminated information that the Russian military could have tortured Oscar Jenkins, who fought for Ukraine, to death. The media referred to the words of the Australian's brothers-in-arms, who probably saw his body.
Journalists " Info" He sent a video with the bodies of soldiers on the back of a car, where they say in Russian: “This is what will happen to you, mercenaries, f*ck, Australian, eee, f*ck. Let's kill you all, damn it"
This video was also published online, in particular, it was distributed by Ukrainian journalist Andrey Tsaplienko.
Using OSINT analysis, it was possible to find out that an identical video, but without Russian voice acting, was published four years ago on one of the Iranian services for free viewing and sharing of videos.
The author of this video signed it as “The price of Karabakh” and added the hashtags “Karabakh”, “war”, “soldiers”, “corpses”. Captions for the video were made in Farsi and the original language is not Russian, but Armenian. The man holding the camera says: " Injured by debris..."
The Army noted that there was no transfer of Oscar Jenkins' body.. Meanwhile, the Office of the Attorney General noted that they have no confirmation of the death of the Australian volunteer, and the Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War noted that they are not yet commenting on this issue.
Ukrainian Ambassador to Australia Vasily Miroshnichenko did not rule out that information about the death penalty of Australian volunteer Oscar Jenkins could have been a special information operation. Its goal is to intimidate representatives of foreign states so that they do not go to fight for Ukraine.
Jenkins' whereabouts are currently unknown.. Propagandists claim that the Australian soldier is alive, but Russia does not provide any evidence of this.
Then reports spread about the possible death of a volunteer. Because of this, Australia summoned Russian Ambassador Alexei Pavlovsky to the Foreign Ministry.