Father Christmas, driving a sleigh stuffed with NATO-branded rockets, is shot out of the sky above Moscow in an obvious new piece of Russian propaganda.
“Good, we don’t need anything foreign in our skies,” says a second Santa in Russian, sitting in what seems to be a management room.
Ukraine Centre for Countering Disinformation shared the video, saying that Russia’s “paranoia about the ‘NATO threat’ has reached new heights”.
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Nonetheless from obvious Russian propaganda exhibiting Santa over Moscow
Ukrainian journalist Illia Ponomarenko reported that it was launched after the Azerbaijani Airways airplane crashed in Kazakhstan on Christmas Day – amid hypothesis it was shot down by Russian air defences.
The video begins with Santa, wearing purple, flying in a sleigh above the Russian capital, saying: “Ho, ho, ho! Hi Russians, here are your presents! Happy New Year!”
It then exhibits a missile blowing up the sleigh and cuts to the management room, the place another Father Christmas wearing blue asks “Is that it?” and a person in uniform replies: “Yes, the target is destroyed.”
“Good, we don’t need anything foreign in our skies,” the Santa says in response.
