| Title: | Old military training drill video falsely passed off as footage of US soldiers fighting in Ukraine |
| URL: | https://factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com.326L9E6 |
| Publisher: | AFP |
| Date published: | March 22, 2022 |
| Description: | A video of soldiers jumping out of a plane with parachutes has been shared tens of thousands of times on Facebook in South Africa alongside a claim that it shows US paratroopers joining the war in Ukraine. But this is false: the footage, which has been viewed millions of times, has been online since at least 2016 and features US soldiers performing parachute drills at the Pope Army Airfield in North Carolina. |
Old military training drill video falsely passed off as footage of US soldiers fighting in Ukraine
A video of soldiers jumping out of a plane with parachutes has been shared tens of thousands of times on Facebook in South Africa alongside a claim that it shows US paratroopers joining the war in Ukraine. But this is false: the footage, which has been viewed millions of times, has been online since at least 2016 and features US soldiers performing parachute drills at the Pope Army Airfield in North Carolina.
