Daily Archives: February 24, 2022

A post on Facebook claims to show a “Fire starting by russian airstrike” with hashtags mentioning Ukraine alongside a video of large explosions, where a man can be heard swearing in the background That’s not what this video shows.  It was taken in 2015 in the Chinese city of Tianjin during an explosion at a… Read More »

A video of military planes flying overhead, widely shared on Facebook, is claimed to be footage from the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Spanish fact checking organisation Maldita has revealed the video actually shows a military parade rehearsal near Moscow in May 2020.  The original footage can be viewed on YouTube. Clips of this video claiming… Read More »

A post on Facebook claims a video which includes a number of different clips depicts Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. It was posted on the morning of 24 February 2022 and at the time of writing has over 19,000 views. The two-minute video contains five different clips. One was definitely not taken in Ukraine, one was… Read More »

A video shared on Facebook, which has been viewed over 77,000 times, claims to show footage of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Troops entered two rebel held areas in eastern Ukraine on 22 February, before an invasion was announced by Russian president Vladimir Putin on 24 February. Some of the clips included in the video… Read More »

A post shared over 1,000 times on Facebook features three images of explosions, with a caption describing the current invasion of Ukraine and stating: “Explosions have been heard in Ukraine after Russia launched a full-scale invasion this morning.” Russian forces entered two rebel held areas in eastern Ukraine on 22 February, before an invasion of… Read More »