Also in another example, this time foreign reporting, they had an English speaking Arab correspondent doing a 360 VR tour in Homs after it was completely destroyed by Syrian government (many months later) and the reporter specifically noted how you can't hear anything here, no birds, nothing, because the city was DEAD. It really didn't feel like propaganda to show the Russian intervention on the side of Assad in a good light, not at all.

Obviously can't even find it now, but here's some other people walking around the former city in an UN video, also nothing the "haunted" silence: https://youtube.com/watch?v=zOS1va7eFWk