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 not taken during the current invasion, one was taken from a video game, one may have been taken in Ukraine over the last 24 hours and one we were not able to verify at all.
We’re seeing lots of videos and images circulating on social media which claim to show Russia attacking Ukraine, but aren’t genuine. For general help on what to look out for if you see footage shared, see our 2018 guide on how to spot misleading videos online.
Here’s what we’ve been able to verify about the footage:
Clip #1: Probably Ukraine. We were unable to completely verify this clip, but we also don’t have reason to believe it wasn’t taken in Ukraine.
The caption is a location tag seen on Instagram that names a district in Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, and Russian airstrikes could be heard from the city on Thursday morning, so the footage is quite possibly genuine.
The location tag is not proof it was taken there though—you don’t have to be in a place to tag it as your location on an Instagram story. But we were not able to find an older version of this video online that disproves its legitimacy. The oldest version we could find on Twitter was posted in...
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