US helping IS? Russia posts 'video game screenshots' as 'irrefutable' evidence

Russia's defence ministry, on Wednesday, accused the US of "helping Islamic State"and provided "irrefutable proof".

Moscow has beenaccusing the US of aiding ISfor a long time.

A number of pictures were posted on Twitter by the Russian defense ministery claiming "irrefutable evidence that US is actually covering ISIS[IS] combat units to recover their combat capabilities, redeploy, and use them to promote the American interests in the Middle East".

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However, it was later found that the pictures were actually taken from a video game.

Moments later, new pictures were posted by the ministery making the same accusations and also that the US is helping IS by covering IS militants, the ministry said it liberated the town of Abu Kamal last week alongside the Syrian army, as per media reports.

But it was discovered a few hours later that it was actually a screenshot from an AC-130 gunship simulator video game, said reports.

According to reports, the ministry had also accused US of organizing air operations in the area in order to impede with Russian strikes and alleged that IS forces were transforming themselves into US lead SDF fighters.

The propaganda’s connection to the video game was discovered by people on Twitter.

British researcher, Eliot Higgins of investigative site - Bellingcat was among the first to find a YouTube clip of “Special Ops Squadron” demonstrating that Russia’s defense ministry posted a cropped screenshot as an “irrefutable” proof,” evidenced most clearly by similar text showing in both the video game footage and Moscow’s photo of the Islamic State convoy, reported the Washington Times.