| Title: | This video shows an explosion in China in 2015, not Ukraine in 2022 |
| URL: | https://factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com.323U2TG |
| Publisher: | AFP |
| Date published: | March 4, 2022 |
| Description: | As Russian troops invaded Ukraine, a video was viewed hundreds of thousands of times in social media posts that claimed it showed a huge explosion at a power plant in the separatist Luhansk region. While there have been reports of a fire at a power plant in the region, the video has been shared in a false context. It actually shows a deadly blast that ripped through the Chinese port city of Tianjin in 2015. |
This video shows an explosion in China in 2015, not Ukraine in 2022
As Russian troops invaded Ukraine, a video was viewed hundreds of thousands of times in social media posts that claimed it showed a huge explosion at a power plant in the separatist Luhansk region. While there have been reports of a fire at a power plant in the region, the video has been shared in a false context. It actually shows a deadly blast that ripped through the Chinese port city of Tianjin in 2015.
