A video is being shared on social media with a claim that it shows Russian Military paratroopers landing in Ukraine.
The video was shared with the caption, “Russian paratroopers are landing in odessa Ukraine.”
Here’s the link to the above post. The video was shared extensively on Facebook.
The video was shared by many Indian media outlets like Zee News, Republic World and India News.
FACT CHECK
NewsMobile fact-checked the post and found that the video is old.
We ran a keyword search along with a Reverse Image Search on the keyframes of the video on Yandex, the Russian search engine.
The search led us to a website where the same video was shared back in 2018. “Khakhly, remember this is what Russian paratroopers look like,” the Google Translation of the caption read.
Upon searching further, we found the same video shared on Twitter on September 4, 2016.
NewsMobile independently couldn’t verify the origin and location of the video, however, it is clear that the video has existed on the internet since at least 2016. Hence, the viral claim is false.
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