This video shows an explosion in China in 2015, not Ukraine in 2022

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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.