Misleading Material. While the image in the tweet is a photo of Putin, it has nothing to do with Russia's invasion of Ukraine. It was taken during a submarine dive off an island in the Gulf of Finland in 2019.
Verdict: False
The video was created by the non-partisan anti-corruption organization, RepresentUs. A spokesperson for the organization confirmed the footage of Putin included in the video was not real.
Did Vladimir Putin recently go to South Africa, defying the arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court? That's the claim made by at least two videos that have been shared thousands of times on TikTok and Facebook since late March. This footage, however, is old and doesn't in any way prove that Putin has recently travelled to South Africa.
A cache of documents that first appeared on the Discord server "Thug Shaker Central" appeared to contain genuine intelligence files.
A recent Facebook post suggests that the video featured in it shows footage of the war in Ukraine but the video in question is from a video game.
Searching for the post's video description turns up a YouTube post from about a year earlier. It has the same description, but identifies the video as being from "Arma 3," a military simulation game.
We rate claims that this clip shows real footage from the war in Ukraine False.
Did Ukrainians really set a Russian Orthodox church on fire? A video purporting to show just that has been circulating online since April 5, 2023. However, it turns out that this video was filmed in Russia more than ten years ago and shows an accidental fire.
The Russian Embassy in Kenya shared an image on Twitter on April 6 showing an exhausted-looking Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, who has been incarcerated in the United Kingdom since 2019. However, it turns out that one of his supporters generated the image using artificial intelligence.
Miscaptioned.
Context: The video being shared was posted on YouTube around 10 years ago and is reportedly of a church being burned in Russia.
Although there was a fire at the Ministry of Defense in Moscow, it was restricted to one small section on the third floor of the building.
The fire was said to have spread around 60 square meters. According to news reports it was put out shortly after it was reported.
Russia is taking its turn in a rotating leadership position within the U.N. That doesn't mean Putin is now president of the organization.
