Hoax – The cold in Russia reached the extreme mark of -81 degrees and a video shows men saving a frozen deer.
Analysis
A sequence of impressive images has recently begun to circulate heavily on digital platforms, sparking amazement among thousands of internet users. The footage shows what appears to be a scenario of absolute cold in Russian territory, where the temperature supposedly plummeted to an unbelievable minus 81 degrees Celsius. In the center of the scene, men attempt to break thick layers of ice covering the body of a deer, which remains motionless and conscious amidst a snowstorm.
The narrative accompanying the images reinforces the extreme nature of the meteorological event, suggesting that the phenomenon is real and that the animal’s survival depended exclusively on human intervention with hammers and tools. Read the message circulating with the video:
Cold in Russia -81 degrees. Cold in Russia reached 81 negative. You may not believe it and think it’s AI, but in Russia the cold reached the extreme, a snowstorm with extremely low temperatures reaching 81 negative. Animals froze in the snow.
Fact-Check
The content has been shared as a warning about the severe climatic conditions faced in certain regions of Russia, where animals are allegedly literally freezing alive due to the intense cold. However, it is fake. In this check, we will answer the following questions: 1) Did the cold in Russia reach -81 degrees and did men save a frozen deer in the video? 2) How was the video showing men saving the animal made? 3) And finally, has it ever been -81 degrees in Russia at any point in history?
Did the cold in Russia reach -81 degrees and did men save a frozen deer in the video?
It is not true that the temperature in Russia recently reached -81 degrees or that that specific video records a real rescue of a frozen animal under those conditions. Although the caption attempts to give the material veracity, the images show visual inconsistencies typical of digitally generated content (such as the hammer that sinks into the animal’s body at a certain point).
It is important to note that, although there are real records of deer rescues in accumulated snow situations, the video in question does not belong to any of these events documented by journalistic sources or environmental authorities.
How was the video showing men saving the frozen deer made?
The video circulating on social media is nothing more than a creation made by Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools. Despite the hoax’s caption mocking the possibility of it being a digital creation, several graphic elements confirm that the scene is synthetic. The behavior of the ice when broken, the texture of the animal, and the lighting of the snowstorm itself are common characteristics of AI video generation models that still face difficulties in emulating the real physics of solid and organic materials. The scene was constructed to shock and generate engagement but has no basis in physical reality.
Has it ever been -81 degrees in Russia?
A temperature of -81 degrees Celsius has never been recorded in Russia. Historical meteorological records show very different numbers. According to data from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the lowest temperature ever measured in the Northern Hemisphere occurred in Greenland in 1991, marking -69.6 ºC.
In Russia, the official record belongs to the town of Verkhoyansk, which recorded -67.8 ºC in February 1892. Globally, the lowest mark ever detected on the planet was -89.2 ºC, reached in 1983 at the Vostok station in Antarctica, a location with very specific geographic and altitude conditions, unparalleled by inhabited or forested areas of Russia.
Conclusion
The video showing men saving a frozen deer at -81 degrees in Russia is a work of fiction generated by artificial intelligence, and the temperatures mentioned in the message have never been recorded in Russian territory.
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