Barry McCaffrey, a retired US General and one of the employees of the MSNBC channel, posted a video on Twitter in which he evaluated the footage of the destruction of a Russian Air Force aircraft by the Ukrainian air defense forces. Fox News via Twitter link.
Users were skeptical of the release of public and recognizable images from the video game in the genre of “tactical shooter” Arma 3. This marked the defeat of a Russian aircraft by a British missile.
“You would think that a retired general with four combat tours and three Purple Hearts on his record would have an idea of what he really looks like. This video is fully animated,” said Beckett Adams, program director of the National Center for Journalism.
Later, General McCaffrey deleted the post, but some managed to take screenshots.