{"id":1444571,"date":"2022-04-18T17:00:46","date_gmt":"2022-04-18T21:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1444571"},"modified":"2022-04-18T17:01:02","modified_gmt":"2022-04-18T21:01:02","slug":"fact-check-does-this-movie-show-ukrainians-destroying-the-russian-vehicle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-does-this-movie-show-ukrainians-destroying-the-russian-vehicle\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Does This Movie Show Ukrainians Destroying The Russian Vehicle?"},"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-movie-show-ukrainians-destroying-the-russian-vehicle%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=1444571&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:\/\/archive.ph\/UqtNv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/twitter.com\/cossackgundi\/status\/1514291493955121161&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1650379525188000&#038;usg=AOvVaw2QuBohnoeXOHLJvKIfx81w\">shared on Facebook<\/a> claims to show a Ukrainian anti-tank guided missile (ATGM) destroying a Russian vehicle.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: False<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The video, taken in Syria, predates the Ukrainian conflict by several years.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Ukraine claims Russia has lost 790 tanks and over 2,000 armored personnel carriers as of April 18, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/uncategorized\/general-staff-russia-has-lost-20600-troops-in-ukraine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Kyiv Independent<\/a>. One weapon the Ukrainians have employed against Russian armor is the Stugna-P, a Ukrainian-developed ATGM, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/ukraine-using-its-antitank-missile-stugna-p-against-russian-armor-2022-3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Business Insider<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>A video shared on Facebook claims to show such a weapon in use. It shows a missile that appears to be remotely guided hitting and destroying an armored vehicle. \u201cUkrainian ATGM operators are almost supernaturally good,\u201d the post\u2019s caption claims. The video was also <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cossackgundi\/status\/1514291493955121161\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">viewed<\/a> over 300,000 times on Twitter. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2022\/02\/24\/fact-check-russian-airplane-struck-ukraine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Does This Video Show A Russian Fighter Jet Being Shot Down In Ukraine?)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The video predates the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. A reverse image search revealed a longer version of the video was posted to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dMSeDvUAsZE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> in May 2017 by user Mark Iraq titled \u201cFSA blowing up Assad BMP with TOW in Northern Hama.\u201d The FSA is a reference to the Free Syrian Army, a Syrian opposition group made up of different factions, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/free-syrian-army-turns-to-turkey-for-support-in-war-against-assad\/a-42462658\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DW<\/a>.<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>The Facebook video edits out the weapon\u2019s set up and the FSA fighters yelling out, \u201cAllah Akbar\u201d after the vehicle is destroyed. The Arabic watermark visible in the original footage was also edited out.<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time combat footage from the Middle East has been misattributed to the conflict in Ukraine. Check Your Fact recently <a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2022\/04\/12\/fact-check-russian-ukraine-conflict-battle-video\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">debunked<\/a> a video that claimed to show combat between Russian and Ukrainian forces but actually showed U.S. Marines fighting in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A video\u00a0shared on Facebook claims to show a Ukrainian anti-tank guided missile (ATGM) destroying a Russian vehicle.Verdict: False The video, taken in Syria, predates the Ukrainian conflict by several years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":1444599,"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-1444571","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\/1444571","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=1444571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1444599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1444571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1444571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1444571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}