{"id":1342707,"date":"2022-02-25T15:08:27","date_gmt":"2022-02-25T20:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1342707"},"modified":"2022-02-25T15:08:35","modified_gmt":"2022-02-25T20:08:35","slug":"fact-check-does-this-video-show-an-explosion-at-a-power-plant-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-does-this-video-show-an-explosion-at-a-power-plant-in-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Does This Video Show An Explosion At A Power Plant In Ukraine?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-does-this-video-show-an-explosion-at-a-power-plant-in-ukraine%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1342707&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>A video <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/xposedmagazinenewsofficial1\/videos\/1539072693142004\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Facebook<\/a> allegedly shows an explosion at a Ukrainian power plant caused by a Russian airstrike.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span>Verdict: False<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The video shows a series of explosions at a chemical warehouse in Tianjin, China in 2015.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span>Fact Check:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Russian forces launched a full-scale attack on Ukraine Feb. 24 with Russian President Vladimir Putin warning other nations of \u201cconsequences [they] have never seen\u201d if they try to intervene, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/world\/russia-invades-ukraine-on-multiple-fronts-in-brutal-act-of-war\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PBS<\/a>. The U.S. issued severe sanctions on Russian banks but stopped short of targeting energy and other economic sectors following the start of the invasion, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/02\/24\/russia-sanctions-ukraine-invasion-00011431\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Politico<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A video shared on Facebook claims to show damage from the war in Ukraine. It shows footage of a distant building on fire that suddenly explodes into a huge fireball about 20 seconds into the video. A second large explosion follows shortly after the first.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c#Ukraine explosion,\u201d reads the video\u2019s caption. \u201cFires started by Russian airstrike set off chain reaction at Luhansk power plant #RussiaUkraineConflict\u00a0#Russia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The video is not from Ukraine and predates the current Russian invasion. The footage comes from an August 2015 incident at a chemical warehouse in Tianjin, China, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/china\/tianjin-blasts-tour-american-survivor-dan-van-durens-wrecked-home-n412986\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NBC News<\/a>. The video was filmed by an American, Daniel Van Duren, who was trying to capture the Perseid meteor shower before the incident occurred.<\/p>\n<p>The explosions killed 165 people, caused approximately $1.1 billion in damages and destroyed more than 300 buildings, according to The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/02\/06\/world\/asia\/tianjin-explosions-were-result-of-mismanagement-china-finds.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New York Times<\/a>. Illegally-stored toxic chemicals in the warehouse were deemed responsible for the incident in an official report, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2016\/8\/12\/explosion-hits-chinas-dangyang-on-tianjin-anniversary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Al Jazeera<\/a> reported. 49 people were reportedly jailed over the explosions as of November 2016, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thetwo-way\/2016\/11\/09\/501441138\/china-jails-49-over-deadly-tianjin-warehouse-explosions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR<\/a>. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2022\/02\/24\/fact-check-ukraine-police-covid-restrictions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Does This Video Show Ukrainian Police Declining To Enforce COVID-19 Lockdowns And Mandates?)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Check Your Fact previously <a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2020\/08\/15\/fact-check-crater-beirut-explosion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">debunked<\/a> an image from August 2020 that claimed to show the aftermath and crater from a blast in Lebanon, but really showed the aftermath of the Tianjin explosion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A video shared on Facebook allegedly shows an explosion at a Ukrainian power plant caused by a Russian airstrike.Verdict: False The video shows a series of explosions at a chemical<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1342707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1342707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1342707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1342707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1342707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}