| Title: | Old footage of a Canadian train ferrying armoured vehicles unrelated to war in Ukraine |
| URL: | https://factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com.324M4WH |
| Publisher: | AFP |
| Date published: | March 8, 2022 |
| Description: | A video of a long train transporting military vehicles has been shared on Facebook alongside a claim that the footage shows the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) sending tanks and equipment to Ukraine in support of its war against Russia. But this is false; the video has been circulating online since at least 2012 and shows a Canadian train operating in North America. |
Old footage of a Canadian train ferrying armoured vehicles unrelated to war in Ukraine
A video of a long train transporting military vehicles has been shared on Facebook alongside a claim that the footage shows the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) sending tanks and equipment to Ukraine in support of its war against Russia. But this is false; the video has been circulating online since at least 2012 and shows a Canadian train operating in North America.
