{"id":1599725,"date":"2022-08-10T17:25:17","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T21:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1599725"},"modified":"2022-08-10T17:25:23","modified_gmt":"2022-08-10T21:25:23","slug":"fact-check-does-this-video-show-russians-running-away-after-a-ukrainian-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-does-this-video-show-russians-running-away-after-a-ukrainian-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Does This Video Show Russians Running Away After A Ukrainian Strike?"},"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\">26<\/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-russians-running-away-after-a-ukrainian-strike%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=1599725&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\/DCNF-Ukraine-US-Intel-Featured-scaled-e1651760640841.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A video\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pantera.carbon\/videos\/834652380837559\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pantera.carbon\/videos\/834652380837559&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1660076631966000&#038;usg=AOvVaw1ZV8O9VgKpO9kC2v1aLtC5\">shared on Facebook<\/a> claims to show Russian soldiers running away after a Ukrainian strike.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: False<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The video was taken in the aftermath of a fire at a Russian military base in 2015. It is unrelated to the current conflict in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Ukraine has struck several Russian munitions depots and command posts with High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) strikes, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national-security\/2022\/08\/08\/new-ukraine-military-package-is-largest-yet-pentagon-says\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Washington Post<\/a>. Russia claimed Aug. 9 to have destroyed a depot stocked with HIMARS munitions, Reuters <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/markets\/europe\/russia-says-it-destroyed-himars-ammunition-depot-ukraine-2022-08-09\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Facebook video, which shows clouds of black smoke and soldiers running away, claims to show the aftermath of a Ukrainian strike \u201con the Brilevka railway station in the Kherson region.\u201d The claim was echoed on Twitter as well, with one iteration <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Flash43191300\/status\/1554412744291622913\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">receiving<\/a> over 950 retweets.<\/p>\n<p>The video is miscaptioned. Through a reverse image search, Check Your Fact found a nearly identical video was uploaded to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=37ssvPKNx3E\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> in May 2015 with a Russian-language title that translates to, \u201cRussian Federation, Rostov region Warehouse on fire.\u201d <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[embedded content]\n<p>The video appears to show Russian soldiers fleeing fires and explosions that erupted a the Kuzminka military base in 2015, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/827Qk#selection-2921.63-2921.72\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The New York Times<\/a>.\u00a0The Russian military said the cause of the fire was a short circuit in an armored vehicle that injured six soldiers and destroyed 30 vehicles, the outlet reported. An image of the Russian soldiers fleeing, which appears to be a screen grab from the video uploaded on YouTube, was published as part of The New York Times report about the incident.<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time old footage has been shared on social media with a false claim that it stems from the current conflict in Ukraine. In April, Check Your Fact <a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2022\/04\/22\/fact-check-soviet-flag-mariupol-russia-ukraine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">debunked<\/a> an image claiming to show Russian soldiers raising the Soviet flag in Mariupol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A video\u00a0shared on Facebook claims to show Russian soldiers running away after a Ukrainian strike.Verdict: FalseThe video was taken in the aftermath of a fire at a Russian military base<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"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-1599725","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\/1599725","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=1599725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599725\/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=1599725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1599725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1599725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}