Russian TV station mistakenly airs footage of ARMA 3 during report on war in Syria

A Russian television station has mistakenly aired footage from a video game during a report on the war in Syria.

As noted by the BBC, the suspicious footage was edited into a segment celebrating members of the country's armed forces on weekly programme Voskresnoye Vremya, which runs on Russia's state-run Channel One TV.

At one point in the video, a truck is shown being targeted through a gun sight. While the clip's appearance was brief enough to pass unnoticed by most, users of Russia's Reddit-like community site Pikabu were a little more observant, quickly identifying the footage as being from developer Bohemia Interactive's ARMA 3.

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