{"id":1357134,"date":"2022-03-03T14:52:45","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T19:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1357134"},"modified":"2022-03-03T14:52:50","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T19:52:50","slug":"fact-check-does-this-video-show-a-ukrainian-giving-instructions-on-how-to-drive-abandoned-russian-tanks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-does-this-video-show-a-ukrainian-giving-instructions-on-how-to-drive-abandoned-russian-tanks\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Does This Video Show A Ukrainian Giving Instructions On How To Drive Abandoned Russian Tanks?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/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-a-ukrainian-giving-instructions-on-how-to-drive-abandoned-russian-tanks%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=1357134&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/GettyImages-1237955859-scaled-e1646247212284.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A video <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/rQqrL\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Facebook<\/a> purportedly shows a Ukrainian woman demonstrating how to drive an abandoned Russian tank.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: False<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>This video was posted in 2021 and stems from a Russian YouTuber. It has nothing to do with the Russian invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Russian forces in Ukraine have made gains in the southern portion of the country, including the capture of the strategic city of Kherson, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2022\/03\/03\/world\/ukraine-russia-news-war#footage-shows-the-moment-a-ukrainian-residential-area-came-under-bombardment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The New York Times<\/a>. Throughout the invasion, social media users have been sharing videos and pictures of abandoned Russian military vehicles, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/russia-ukraine-kyiv-army-tanks-abandoned-1683584\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Newsweek<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>One Facebook <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/MK4Ex\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">video<\/a> allegedly shows a Ukrainian civilian filming a TikTok video in a Russian tank and seemingly demonstrating how it is operated and how to drive the vehicle. \u201cUkrainians are uploading videos on TikTok about how to drive abandoned or captured Russian military vehicles,\u201d the video\u2019s caption claims.<\/p>\n<p>The video predates the recent Russian invasion of Ukraine. A reverse image search revealed the video was originally posted to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@nastyatyman\/video\/6929812666148048130?is_from_webapp=1&#038;sender_device=pc&#038;web_id7033463616390612485\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">TikTok<\/a> by a user named Nastya Tyman on Feb. 16, 2021. The post features the caption, \u201cHow to start an armored personnel carrier,\u201d in Russian. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2022\/02\/28\/fact-check-russian-paratroopers-ukraine-war-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Does This Video Show A Russian Soldier Parachuting Into Ukraine?)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tyman is a self-described auto mechanic and blogger based in Russia, not Ukraine, according to her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/NastyaTyman\/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> page. Tyman told Cosmopolitan in a 2020 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cosmo.ru\/lifestyle\/news\/31-08-2020\/nastya-tuman-mne-nravitsya-snimat-vsyo-to-chto-svyazano-s-avtomobilyami\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">interview<\/a> that she shoots \u201ceverything related to cars,\u201d including repair, tuning and drifting.<\/p>\n<p>Tyman reposted the video on her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@nastyatyman\/video\/7069353129434713346?is_copy_url=1&#038;is_from_webapp=v1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">TikTok<\/a> Feb. 28, several days after the Russian invasion of Ukraine began. The new video features the caption, \u201cIf you come across a free or abandoned armored personnel carrier \u2013 keep a life hack on how to launch it,\u201d in Russian. She made no mention of the Ukrainian or Russian military.<\/p>\n<p>Several videos and images have been misattributed to the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian war. Check Your Fact recently <a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2022\/03\/01\/fact-check-russia-airplanes-ukraine-video\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">debunked<\/a> a video that allegedly showed military airplanes flying in formation over the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A video shared on Facebook purportedly shows a Ukrainian woman demonstrating how to drive an abandoned Russian tank.Verdict: False This video was posted in 2021 and stems from a Russian<\/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-1357134","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\/1357134","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=1357134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357134\/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=1357134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1357134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1357134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}