Fact-checking footage claiming to show recent attack on Russian warship Moskva
The VERIFY team analyzed two videos claiming to show an attack on Russian warship Moskva. Here is how we know those videos weren't taken in 2022.
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No, the BBC didn’t air a video claiming Ukraine bombed one of its own train stations
A video claiming to be a BBC News report suggested Ukraine bombed one of its own train stations. The video was fake and did not come from BBC News.
Fake: Ukrainian Drones for Spraying Poisonous Substances Found
The drones Russian media are claiming Ukrainian troops use to spray poisons are not combat drones, but rather DJI AGRAs T30 agricultural drones which are used in farmland management.
According to the All Ukrainian Federation of Drone Owners, the drones in the video circulated by the Russian media belong to their client and they were stolen by the Russian military.
‘Old footage’ of ‘Ukrainian Nazis’ murdering ‘Chechnya Muslims’? No, video from 2014 war movie – Africa Check
None of this is true. The video is a work of fiction and the people in it are actors. The video is related to war in Chechnya, but only because it's a clip from The Search (2014), a war drama written and directed by French filmmaker Michel Hazanavicius. The Search is fiction, though set in a real war. But it's worth pointing out that right at the beginning it specifically identifies the men who kill the man and woman as Russian soldiers.
And the caption's claim that "Ukrainian Nazis once upon a time invaded Chechnya" is incorrect.
Russian TV claimed Ukraine used mannequins to fake war casualties. That video is actually from a TV show set
During a Russia-24 news segment, broadcasters claimed Ukraine was using mannequins to exaggerate the civilian death toll. The clip they shared is from a TV show set.
Fake: Ukraine Refuses to Finance Kharkiv, Kyiv Resigned to Russia’s Occupation of City
Ukraine is not compromising its territorial integrity and sovereignty. The first billion hryvni of financial assistance released for the regions liberated from Russian occupation does not include the Kharkiv region because intensive hostilities are continuing in this northeastern part of Ukraine's territory. Part of the Kharkiv region is still under Russian occupation. Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said that after all Ukrainian lands currently occupied by Russian troops are liberated, reconstruction work will begin immediately.
Slovak Government: Russia’s Claims It Destroyed S-300 Air Defense Systems Supplied to Ukraine is…
Slovakia has refuted Russian claims that S-300 air defense systems it supplied to Ukraine were destroyed.
Fake: Ukrainian Troops Blow Up Nitric Acid Tanks in Rubizhne
Contrary to Russian disinformation reports, the Ukrainian military did not blow up a nitric acid tank in Rubizhne, Luhansk province on April 9. According to Luhansk regional governor Serhiy Haidai, Russian troops had already twice blown up a nitric acid tank in Rubizhne. Blowing up its own chemical storage facility does not give the Ukrainian military any tactical advantage. The Ukrainian army has no plans to abandon its positions and leave Rubizhne.
Fake: Borrell for Resolving Conflict in Ukraine Militarily
Josep Borrell is proposing tougher sanctions to pressure Russia to stop its war crimes in Ukraine. He sees increased weapons supplies to Ukraine as a way of helping Kyiv protect its territory and its people from Russian army attacks and notes that Ukraine will definitely prevail.
Fake: Serial Number Confirms Kramatorsk Train Station Hit by Ukrainian Tochka U Missile
A serial number is not proof that the Tochka U missile fired on the Kramatorsk train station belongs to the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Other objective evidence indicates that the strike was carried out from territory controlled by Russian Federation troops.