| Title: | Video game clip falsely shared as footage of Russian tanks struck by US-supplied missiles in Ukraine |
| URL: | https://factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com.32NF8NC |
| Publisher: | AFP |
| Date published: | November 16, 2022 |
| Description: | A video viewed tens of thousands of times on social media has been falsely shared as showing Ukrainian troops attacking Russian tanks with US-made Javelin anti-tank missiles. While the missiles are among armaments sent by the United States and Western countries to Ukraine after Russia’s invasion in February 2022, the clip in fact shows footage from the video game ARMA 3. |
Video game clip falsely shared as footage of Russian tanks struck by US-supplied missiles in Ukraine
A video viewed tens of thousands of times on social media has been falsely shared as showing Ukrainian troops attacking Russian tanks with US-made Javelin anti-tank missiles. While the missiles are among armaments sent by the United States and Western countries to Ukraine after Russia's invasion in February 2022, the clip in fact shows footage from the video game ARMA 3.
