Russian trolls are the talk of the town once again after a congressional investigation revealed the magnitude their fake social media accounts managed to fool us all.

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But what happens when the official account of the Russian ministry of defence tweets a fake picture of a military operation?

This morning, @mod_russia tweeted in Russian, English and Arabic a series of drone combat pictures to accuse the U.S. of cooperation with the so-called Islamic State (ISIS) in Syria.

"The Ministry of Defence shows irrefutable evidence that # US are actually covering ISIS combat units to recover their combat capabilities, redeploy, and use them to promote American interests in Middle East," it said in the tweet.

#Russian_Mod shows irrefutable evidence that #US are actually covering ISIS combat units to recover their combat capabilities, redeploy, and use them to promote American interests in Middle Easthttps://t.co/DX6xaBEAmx pic.twitter.com/d5U98c5tPG — Минобороны России (@mod_russia) November 14, 2017

There's only one problem: one of the still pics is from videogame AC-130 Gunship Simulator.

This is from YouTube's development preview of the game, from 2015:

Image: screengrab/youtube/Byte Conveyor Studios

And this is the image used by Russia, specific with location and date. The description reads: "The ISIS convoy, coming out of Abu-Kamal near the Syria-Iraq border. (Photo created November 9, 2017)"

Image: mod_russia/twitter

The picture went viral on social media Nov. 5 after it was tweeted by @AnuSharmaUdh and debunked by Christiaan Triebert at Bellingcat:

Today, in video games presented as real combat footage: "AC-130 Gunship Simulator: Special Ops Squadron" (for mobile, ffs). HT @ArtWendeley. pic.twitter.com/Xex7JsEa2E — Christiaan Triebert (@trbrtc) November 5, 2017

Another drone image tweeted by @mod_russia allegedly shows Isis automobile convoy leaving Abu Kamal for the Syrian-Iraqi border on November 9, 2017:

Image: MOD_RUSSIA/TWITTER

But as the Conflict Intelligence Team notes on Twitter, the screenshot is actually from a June 2016 Russia Today video from Iraq's ministry of defence showing the Iraqi Air Force bombing ISIS near Fallujah: