{"id":1453317,"date":"2022-04-25T17:15:34","date_gmt":"2022-04-25T21:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1453317"},"modified":"2022-04-25T17:15:38","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T21:15:38","slug":"fact-check-was-a-us-navy-ship-attacked-by-a-russian-warship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-was-a-us-navy-ship-attacked-by-a-russian-warship\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Was A US Navy Ship Attacked By A Russian Warship?"},"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\">24<\/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-was-a-us-navy-ship-attacked-by-a-russian-warship%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=1453317&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 post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=364704705595596\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Facebook<\/a> claims a U.S. Navy ship was recently attacked by a Russian warship.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: False <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>There is no evidence to suggest a U.S. Navy ship has been attacked by a Russian warship. A Department of Defense (DOD) spokesperson denied the claim.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. has pledged more than $2.5 billion in military assistance to Ukraine as the country continues to fight off a Russian invasion, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/us-announces-additional-800-million-military-aid-ukraine-2022-04-13\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Reuters<\/a>. Despite this, President Joe Biden and other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=V7YYLfq9Aqc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">U.S. officials<\/a> have repeatedly said that U.S. troops will not be pulled into the conflict, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national-security\/2022\/03\/11\/americans-veterans-ukraine-russia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Washington Post<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>A post shared on Facebook calls this commitment to neutrality into question. The post features an eight-minute video that shows several clips of missiles and weapons being fired from naval vessels. \u201cHorrible! Russian Warship Hit US Destroyer Amid Delivery Missiles to Ukraine in Russia Pacific Coast,\u201d reads the video\u2019s title.<\/p>\n<p>The claim in the video\u2019s title is false. Check Your Fact searched news outlets such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/search?query=Russia+attacks+U.S.+ship\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The New York Times<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Associated Press<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/site-search\/?query=Russia+attacks+US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Reuters<\/a> but found no reports of a U.S. Navy vessel being attacked by a Russian warship. Neither the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.navy.mil\/Press-Office\/Press-Releases\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">U.S. Navy<\/a> nor the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gov\/News\/releases\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DOD<\/a> has issued a statement or press release on such a development.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is false,\u201d said a DOD spokesperson in an email to Check Your Fact when asked about the viral claim. <a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2022\/04\/18\/fact-check-russia-moskva-warship-fire-photo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Does This Image Show The Moskva On Fire?)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The video included in the Facebook post offers no source to corroborate the title\u2019s claim and simply recites the text of a November 2020 report from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/24\/russian-warship-threatens-to-ram-us-destroyer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Guardian<\/a> about a brief standoff between the Russian and U.S. Navy in the waters off Russia\u2019s Pacific coast. The article makes no mention of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>The video shared on Facebook appears to originate with an April 23 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KUedVZl7yt8&#038;t=150s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube video<\/a> shared on the YouTube channel \u201cMilitary Vids.\u201d The account has previously shared videos with titles that make unsupported claims, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PHuLROwXMeY&#038;t=1s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">one<\/a> that alleges France attacked a Russian warship and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0rwdBagw6lE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">another<\/a> that claims North Atlantic Treaty Organization forces shot at Russian aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>Check Your Fact has reached out to the U.S. Navy and the Center for Strategic and International Studies for comment and will update this piece if a response is given.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A post shared on Facebook claims a U.S. Navy ship was recently attacked by a Russian warship.Verdict: False There is no evidence to suggest a U.S. Navy ship has<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":1480442,"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-1453317","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\/1453317","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=1453317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1453317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1480442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1453317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1453317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1453317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}