How do you make an aerial drone footage video from behind the battle lines of Syria even more intense? Add a soundtrack and some nifty editing of course, which when you add it all up makes this one helluva spectacle.

What you’re looking at above is filmed by RussiaWorks, a Russian company with ties to the Kremlin. So what is the reasoning behind this slick production? Here’s BusinessInsider:

“RussiaWorks is part of a slick campaign by the Kremlin to sell the war at home and project Russia as a military power,” Boris Zilberman, a Russia expert at the Foundation for the Defence of Democracies, told BI.

“The videos are put together by a number of Russian war correspondents/production folks that are tied to the Kremlin and probably have a lot of time on their hands — and some good drones — to make highly edited videos.”

A recent poll showed that as many as two-thirds of Russians would be opposed to sending troops into Syria to aid the Assad regime, currently engaged with rebel troops in places like Damascus.

I guess the motives are more than questionable although for sheer production value it’s certainly worth a watch.

This one below doesn’t carry the same slickness but, in case you were wondering why so many Syrians were risking their lives to seek asylum in other countries, it may do the trick…

[source:businessinsider]