Ukraine
Fact checks featuring claims seen in the UK about the ongoing war in Ukraine
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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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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CGI WW2 video being used as Ukraine footage
The video first appeared on TikTok in 2021.
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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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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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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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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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Video claiming to show planes during Russian invasion of Ukraine is actually of 2020 parade rehearsal
The military parade rehearsal took place in May 2020 near Moscow, as revealed by Spanish fact checkers.
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