Ukraine

Fact checks featuring claims seen in the UK about the ongoing war in Ukraine

1 March 2022

Beirut port explosion footage being mistaken as Ukraine

Video apparently taken from a street in Beirut of the 2020 explosion is being shared as though it was filmed in Ukraine.

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28 February 2022

CNN did not claim the same man was killed in both Ukraine and Afghanistan

The report came from fake CNN Twitter accounts which have now been suspended. The photo used appears to be of a YouTuber, who is alive.

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28 February 2022

Video shows explosion at air base, not Ukraine’s main airport

The video actually shows the Melitopol air base.

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28 February 2022

Images of girl confronting soldier are not from Ukraine

They come from a video that says it shows children in Palestine, which was published online in 2012.

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25 February 2022

BBC Breakfast uses old footage of Russian parade rehearsal to show invasion of Ukraine

The clip of military planes is one of a number of misleading videos which have circulated online following the invasion.

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25 February 2022

CGI WW2 video being used as Ukraine footage

The video first appeared on TikTok in 2021.

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24 February 2022

Video of 2015 explosion in China being mislabelled as Ukraine

A video recorded by an American man of a warehouse exploding has been wrongly claimed to show Russian airstrikes in Ukraine.

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24 February 2022

Photos claiming to show explosions in Ukraine are actually from Gaza

Pictures that have been widely shared on social media do not show the war in Ukraine.

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24 February 2022

Videos claiming to show Ukraine invasion sourced to old TikTok videos

It’s not clear when or where some of these clips were taken, but they predate the Russian invasion of Ukraine by some weeks.

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24 February 2022

Fake Ukraine video includes footage from 2015 and a computer game teaser

At least some of the clips in a video supposedly showing Russia invading Ukraine aren’t genuine.

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