| Title: | Old video of Russian tank toppling over at military parade resurfaces in Ukraine war posts |
| URL: | https://factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com.33FC6TQ |
| Publisher: | AFP |
| Date published: | May 19, 2023 |
| Description: | An old video of a Russian tank toppling over at a military parade has been viewed tens of thousands of times in posts that misleadingly claim the driver who overturned the vehicle subsequently avoided being sent to the front line in the war against Ukraine. The clip — which recirculated shortly after a military parade in Moscow in May 2023 — corresponds with media reports from 2018 about an accident at another event in the western Russian city of Kursk. |
Old video of Russian tank toppling over at military parade resurfaces in Ukraine war posts
An old video of a Russian tank toppling over at a military parade has been viewed tens of thousands of times in posts that misleadingly claim the driver who overturned the vehicle subsequently avoided being sent to the front line in the war against Ukraine. The clip -- which recirculated shortly after a military parade in Moscow in May 2023 -- corresponds with media reports from 2018 about an accident at another event in the western Russian city of Kursk.
