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Russian TV News Report About Fallen Soldier Uses Video Game Footage

International Business Times

Video game fans who just happened to be watching Russian state TV on Sunday got a strange surprise. "Vremya," a long-running television news program on the Russian network Channel One, mistakenly used footage from a military simulation video game in a segment celebrating Russian military veterans, BBC reported. The Sunday edition of "Vremya" was paying tribute to Roman Filippov, an aircraft pilot who died in Syria less than a month ago. A short montage during the segment was meant to show off the Su-25 aircraft Filippov piloted, but it featured a brief clip from the first-person shooter video game "Arma 3." Russian social media users immediately noticed and debated for a while about whether or not it was an accident or a bonus thrown in by a producer. As the BBC report noted, that may not have been the most sensitive thing to do intentionally during a segment on a fallen soldier.