{"id":1440526,"date":"2022-04-15T13:30:35","date_gmt":"2022-04-15T17:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1440526"},"modified":"2022-04-15T13:30:40","modified_gmt":"2022-04-15T17:30:40","slug":"fact-check-does-this-video-show-a-russian-warship-on-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-does-this-video-show-a-russian-warship-on-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Does This Video Show A Russian Warship On Fire?"},"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\">22<\/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-russian-warship-on-fire%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=1440526&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\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/victor.1225885\/videos\/1313660075791699\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/victor.1225885\/videos\/1313660075791699&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1650037331402000&#038;usg=AOvVaw0adO6TZyMr7plmU6iAywoD\">shared on Facebook<\/a> claims to show the Russian cruiser Moskva on fire in the Black Sea after being struck by a Ukrainian missile.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: False<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The footage is from 2019. An analyst for an open-source military analysis website confirmed there are no verified videos of the ship being sunk.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Ukraine claimed to have struck the Moskva, a Russian cruiser and the flagship of the Russian Black Sea fleet, with an anti-ship missile this week, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2022\/04\/14\/ukraine-russian-missile-cruiser-moskva-warship\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Washington Post<\/a>. Russia\u2019s defense ministry later confirmed the ship sunk but alleged the sinking was the result of a fire and \u201cstormy seas,\u201d not a Ukrainian attack, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-61114843\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BBC News<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>A 30-second video shared on Facebook claims to show the aftermath of the alleged Ukrainian attack. The video, which has a green hue, appears to show a ship on fire in the distance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c#Moskva missile cruiser ship sunk after being struck by Ukrainian Neptun missile fired from the shore between #Odesa and #Mykolaiv,\u201d reads the video\u2019s caption. \u201cTB2 UCAV flew to distract the ship while it was targeted by the Neptun. The ship rolled onto its side after the strike and sunk.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The footage does not show the Moskva. A reverse image search revealed the video is an altered version of one captured in the Black Sea in 2019, years before the war in Ukraine broke out. Parts of the original footage can be seen in a WION News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OvagqQePyp4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube video<\/a> that explains it shows two commercial vessels that caught fire after a refueling accident.<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/av\/world-europe-46954322\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BBC News<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rferl.org\/a\/fatal-fire-onboard-tanzanian-ships-in-kerch-strait-\/29724513.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Radio Free Europe<\/a> also published footage of the 2019 incident. \u201cA large fire involving two cargo vessels in the Black Sea near the Kerch Strait has killed at least 11 sailors,\u201d reported BBC News at the time. \u201cThe blaze reportedly spread following an explosion as a gas tanker was refuelling another ship.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The video shared on Facebook appears to have simply flipped the original footage of the accident and added the green hue to it. <a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2022\/03\/18\/fact-check-black-people-mistreatment-ukraine-conflict\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>(RELATED: Do These Photos Show Black People Being Mistreated In Ukraine?)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/stijn-mitzer-4a9a9419a\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stijn Mitzer<\/a>, an analyst for the open-source military analysis website <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oryxspioenkop.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oryx<\/a>, told Check Your Fact in an email that there \u201cis no footage of the Moskva as of yet.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A video\u00a0shared on Facebook claims to show the Russian cruiser Moskva on fire in the Black Sea after being struck by a Ukrainian missile.Verdict: False The footage is from 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1440526","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\/1440526","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\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1440526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440526\/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=1440526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1440526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1440526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}