| Title: | This clip does not show Russian missiles in Ukraine — it was taken from a video game |
| URL: | https://factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com.32A84BW |
| Publisher: | AFP |
| Date published: | May 23, 2022 |
| Description: | A video has been viewed thousands of times in multiple Facebook and Weibo posts alongside a claim it shows Russian troops blowing up a military convoy carrying US-supplied weapons to Ukraine. However, the claim is false; the clip in fact shows computer-generated imagery from a war video game called ARMA 3. |
This clip does not show Russian missiles in Ukraine — it was taken from a video game
A video has been viewed thousands of times in multiple Facebook and Weibo posts alongside a claim it shows Russian troops blowing up a military convoy carrying US-supplied weapons to Ukraine. However, the claim is false; the clip in fact shows computer-generated imagery from a war video game called ARMA 3.
