Ask HN: Where is all the video footage of fighting in Ukraine

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I remember when the US invaded Iraq in 2003 and there was a lot of video footage. I haven't really seen any from Ukraine yet.

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I've been seeing a lot of videos posted on social media and then posted to reddit.

Check out these links: https://old.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/ https://old.reddit.com/r/InvasionOfUkraine/

Thanks. I wonder how many of these videos are legitimate and current. I've seen people posting a lot of fake stuff, such as the ghost of kyiv photos. I tried (probably naively) to view some image exif data to determine legitamacy but I assume the big sites like twitter, reddit etc all remove that meta data.

Yea I wonder that as well, I just try keep in mind that every video / story might not be exactly what it seems and to use my own judgement. But at the same time I bet a good amount of it is real. It's kind of the first major military operation of a nation outside of the middle east in the time of social media and smartphones. I would expect a lot of footage to get out.

In 2003 the US military 'embedded' journalists with troops to report or feed propaganda depending on how you see things. One of the reasons was probably that they expected not to face too many problems.

Here we seem to be in a much more traditional configuration in which journalists are kept away from operations.

Yeah, I thought that the Russians wouldn't want journalist embedded with them as what they are doing is nothing to promote. Kind of expected there to be some of the more battle hardened journos like Frank Gardner types to be embedded with the Ukrainians though.

Is there an underlying reason as to why you're asking this question?

No, just a general curiosity.

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