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: Some videos purportedly showed Ukrainian saboteurs or shelling in Russian-held territory to provide a pretext for the invasion.

: This date saw a significant increase in shelling and military activity along the "line of contact" in the Donbas region. Videos circulating at this time often depicted explosions, night-time tracer fire, or the movement of Russian military convoys toward the Ukrainian border. video_2022-02-22_00-06-10.mp4

During this period, several videos were circulated by Russian state media and proxy forces that were later identified by Western intelligence and open-source investigators as staged "false flag" operations. : Some videos purportedly showed Ukrainian saboteurs or

The video titled video_2022-02-22_00-06-10.mp4 corresponds to a critical period of escalation just two days before Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022. While the filename follows a standard format used by messaging apps like Telegram, the specific timestamp (February 22, 2022, at approximately midnight) marks the immediate aftermath of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s official recognition of the breakaway regions in eastern Ukraine. During this period, several videos were circulated by