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| Title: | Old clip falsely portrayed as India providing air escort to Russian … |
| URL: | https://factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com.87HL29F |
| Publisher: | AFP |
| Date published: | December 11, 2025 |
| Description: | As Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in India for defence and trade talks on December 4, an old video surfaced in social media posts falsely claiming it showed New Delhi sending fighter jets to escort the leader’s plane. The footage was published by Russian state news agency Sputnik in December 2017 and shows Putin’s plane being escorted by Russian jets en route to Egyptian capital Cairo after a visit to Syria. |
