{"id":1444475,"date":"2022-04-18T15:30:35","date_gmt":"2022-04-18T19:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1444475"},"modified":"2022-04-18T15:30:42","modified_gmt":"2022-04-18T19:30:42","slug":"fact-check-will-this-image-present-the-moskva-burning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-will-this-image-present-the-moskva-burning\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Will This Image Present The Moskva BURNING?"},"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\">18<\/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-will-this-image-present-the-moskva-burning%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=1444475&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>An image <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/6MwcX\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Facebook<\/a> allegedly shows the Moskva, a Russian warship, before and after it was damaged by an explosion.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: Misleading<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>While one of the two photos included in the post shows the Moskva days before it sank, the other photo shows an Iranian ship that caught fire in June 2021.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Russia\u2019s Ministry of Defense announced April 14 that the Moskva had sunk after reportedly being damaged by an explosion, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-61114843\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BBC News<\/a>. Though Russia claims the ship sank as the result of a fire, Ukrainian and U.S. officials suggested it had been struck by Ukrainian missiles, the outlet reports.<\/p>\n<p>The Facebook post features a <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/6MwcX#selection-449.0-461.135\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">set of images<\/a> purportedly showing the Moskva before and after it was damaged by the explosion. The first image shows a ship burning and partially submerged in water while the second shows an intact battleship anchored in a harbor.\u00a0\u201cCruiseship Moskva is on fire!\u201d reads part of the post\u2019s caption.<\/p>\n<p>The top photo does not show the Russian warship. The photo, attributed to the West Asia News Agency, shows the Kharg, an Iranian naval vessel, after it caught fire in the Gulf of Oman in June 2021, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/iran-navy-training-ship-fire-mouth-gulf-crew-evacuated-report-2021-06-01\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Reuters<\/a>. The ship later sank as a result of the fire, the outlet reported.<\/p>\n<p>The image of the burning Iranian vessel can be seen in articles published by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/world\/irans-largest-warship-catches-fire-sinks-in-gulf-of-oman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PBS,<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/iranian-navy-ship-sinks-after-catching-fire-in-gulf-of-oman-11622634903\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Wall Street Journal<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1868956\/middle-east\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Arab News,<\/a> among others. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2022\/04\/15\/fact-check-ukrainian-missile-russian-ship-video\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: No, This Is Not Footage Of A Ukrainian Missile Blowing Up A Russian Naval Vessel)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A reverse image search reveals the second <a href=\"https:\/\/ru.krymr.com\/a\/kreyser-moskva-poslednee-photo-sevastopol\/31804654.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">image<\/a>, the one showing the anchored ship, was shared by the Russian News website Krymr on April 10 and does show the Moskva. \u201cCruiser \u2018Moskva\u2019 in the Sevastopol Bay three days before the hit of Ukrainian missiles \u2018Neptune,&#8217;\u201d reads an English translation of its Russian-language caption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image shared on Facebook allegedly shows the Moskva, a Russian warship, before and after it was damaged by an explosion.Verdict: Misleading While one of the two photos included in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":1444482,"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-1444475","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\/1444475","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\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1444475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1444482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1444475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1444475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1444475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}