A Russian propaganda video purporting to show Ukrainian soldiers shooting at a car carrying a mother and child after hearing the woman speak Russian has been debunked as fake, a CNN analysis shows.

The footage begins with a man in a Ukrainian military uniform stopping a car for a “traffic violation” and then telling a woman in the car: “You bastard, give me your documents.”

Hearing the woman speak Russian, the man in uniform calls her a “pig, scum…” and fires several shots from a gun, scaring the child out of the car. A woman and a child can be heard screaming.

The video from the dash cam was widely shared on Russian Telegram accounts and even on official Twitter accounts such as the Russian Foreign Ministry and the Russian Embassy in London.

However, analysts from open sources on Twitter (@Tatarigami_UA, @PStyle0ne1 and @EjShahid) geolocated footage also in the Russian-occupied territory in the Donetsk region of Ukraine.

CNN analysis confirmed that it is the village of Makiivka, about 30 kilometers from the front line.

Locals even went to the place and photographed the tree branches, which have a characteristic shape, which further confirms the geolocation of the video.

The pro-Russian Telegram channel Veteran Notes with more than 300,000 subscribers recognized the video as a fake.

“This video is fake. It was a missed exercise. We still have a lot to learn about such information operations,” he wrote.

After being debunked by the open source community, the official Twitter account of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs deleted the video without admitting that the incident was fabricated.

The Russian embassy in the UK was still showing the video.