| Title: | Production footage from sci-fi film falsely shared as ‘video of staged Russian attack in Ukraine’ |
| URL: | https://factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com.324R6YU |
| Publisher: | AFP |
| Date published: | March 11, 2022 |
| Description: | As the civilian death toll mounted in Ukraine following Russia’s invasion, a video has been viewed tens of thousands of times in social media posts that claim it shows a “staged scene of the Russian military bombing of Ukrainian civilians”. But the clip in fact shows production footage for a science fiction film released years before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the movie’s director told AFP. The scene was shot in the United Kingdom – not Ukraine. |
Production footage from sci-fi film falsely shared as ‘video of staged Russian attack in Ukraine’
As the civilian death toll mounted in Ukraine following Russia's invasion, a video has been viewed tens of thousands of times in social media posts that claim it shows a "staged scene of the Russian military bombing of Ukrainian civilians". But the clip in fact shows production footage for a science fiction film released years before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the movie's director told AFP. The scene was shot in the United Kingdom - not Ukraine.
