| Title: | Video footage from 2014 misleadingly cast as Russian invasion |
| URL: | https://factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com.324A3D6 |
| Publisher: | AFP |
| Date published: | March 2, 2022 |
| Description: | Footage of armored vehicles set alight by Molotov cocktails on a Ukrainian street is being presented on social media as local resistance against Russia’s ongoing invasion. This is false; the recording is from Ukraine, but it was shot in 2014 in Kyiv during the country’s popular protest movement, when demonstrators torched the army’s vehicles. |
Video footage from 2014 misleadingly cast as Russian invasion
Footage of armored vehicles set alight by Molotov cocktails on a Ukrainian street is being presented on social media as local resistance against Russia's ongoing invasion. This is false; the recording is from Ukraine, but it was shot in 2014 in Kyiv during the country's popular protest movement, when demonstrators torched the army's vehicles.
