{"id":1594976,"date":"2022-08-08T15:40:09","date_gmt":"2022-08-08T19:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1594976"},"modified":"2022-08-08T15:40:15","modified_gmt":"2022-08-08T19:40:15","slug":"fact-check-was-the-russian-defense-ministry-guesthouse-attacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-was-the-russian-defense-ministry-guesthouse-attacked\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Was The Russian Defense Ministry Guesthouse Attacked?"},"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-was-the-russian-defense-ministry-guesthouse-attacked%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=1594976&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:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/2022-07-20T221903Z_831515676_RC2XFV9PYJDW_RTRMADP_3_RUSSIA-FIRE-MOSCOW-scaled-e1659963203791.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A video <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/101012479172954\/posts\/1104100113855253\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Facebook<\/a> claims the \u201cRussian Defense Ministry guesthouse\u201d was recently the target of an attack that led to a fire engulfing part of Moscow.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: False<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>There is no evidence to suggest an attack recently occurred against a government building in Russia.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Russian President Vladimir Putin announced \u201ca special military operation\u201d against Ukraine in February, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/putin-orders-military-operations-ukraine-demands-kyiv-forces-surrender-2022-02-24\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Reuters<\/a>. While the vast majority of the fighting in the conflict has taken place in Ukraine, Russian authorities have accused the Ukrainians of striking targets within Russian territory, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2022\/5\/12\/ukraine-accused-of-deadly-cross-border-attack-on-russian-village\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Al-Jazeera<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>A video shared on Facebook over 12,000 times claims Moscow was recently attacked. \u201cMoscow is engulfed in flames! The Russian Defense Ministry guesthouse was attacked during the night,\u201d reads the Aug. 1 video\u2019s caption. The three-minute video shows scenes of a burning building as a narrator gives details about the fire. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2022\/07\/29\/fact-check-russia-azerbaijan-war-video\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Are Russia And Azerbaijan At War With Each Other?)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The claim is baseless. Check Your Fact found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=Moscow+Russian+Defense+Ministry+guesthouse+attack&#038;sxsrf=ALiCzsZ5FyBaNjOKxTrq0emqssJHT_qCyw%3A1659968892354&#038;ei=fB3xYvqZFamy5NoP5tGL4A4&#038;ved=0ahUKEwj6x6qBurf5AhUpGVkFHeboAuwQ4dUDCA4&#038;uact=5&#038;oq=Moscow+Russian+Defense+Ministry+guesthouse+attack&#038;gs_lcp=Cgdnd3Mtd2l6EAMyBAgjECdKBAhBGABKBAhGGABQAFgAYIkSaABwAHgAgAFGiAGqAZIBATOYAQCgAQHAAQE&#038;sclient=gws-wiz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">no credible news reports<\/a> suggesting any attack took place against the Russian Defense Ministry in Moscow. No such attack is referenced on the Russian Government\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.kremlin.ru\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">official<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/government.ru\/en\/news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">websites<\/a> or its verified <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=attack%20(from%3AGovernmentRF)&#038;src=typed_query\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a> account.<\/p>\n<p>The video itself does not provide any additional information about the alleged attack. Rather, it appears to simply read a July 21 article from The Mirror titled, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/world-news\/breaking-hundreds-evacuated-huge-fire-27536447\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Moscow fire: Hundreds evacuated as blaze rips through tower block sending smoke into sky<\/a>.\u201d The article explains the cause of the fire in Moscow is unknown. It makes no mention of an attack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A video shared on Facebook claims the \u201cRussian Defense Ministry guesthouse\u201d was recently the target of an attack that led to a fire engulfing part of Moscow.Verdict: FalseThere is no<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"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-1594976","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\/1594976","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\/263"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1594976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594976\/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=1594976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1594976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1594976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}