Fact Check: Russia's retaliation for Ukraine's Spider's Web? This video is from 2024
In a massive attack, Ukrainian drones targeted five Russian airbases and reportedly damaged over 40 military aircraft ahead of the Istanbul peace talks. Calling the operation 'brilliant', Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the preparations for it took over a year and a half.Amid this, a video claiming to show Russia's retaliatory attack on Ukraine has gone viral on social media. The video shows airstrikes in what appears to be a residential area, causing huge fireballs and plumes of smoke.advertisement
Notably, Russian shelling and air attacks killed five people outside the southeastern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia, while a drone attack on the Sumy region injured at least six early on the morning of June 2.Sharing the viral video on Facebook, one person wrote in Hindi, 'Russia's counterattack begins. Russia has started launching missile attacks on military and defence bases in many cities of Ukraine. Let's pray Russia doesn't use nuclear weapons.' An X user wrote, 'Update: Russia launches counterattacks on Kiev. Ukraine's drone barrage reportedly destroyed 40 Russian strategic bombers on their home bases. Russia retaliates by launching attacks on Ukraine's capital and 100+ military bases.'India Today Fact Check, however, found that the video dates back to July 2024 and does not show a recent Russian strike on Ukraine.OUR PROBEadvertisementReverse-searching keyframes of the viral video led us to a July 2024 post containing the clip. This makes it evident that the video is old and does not depict a recent Russian attack. The post claimed that it was a Russian cruise missile attack on the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv.We then found a Daily Mail video report uploaded to YouTube on July 9, 2024, which featured the viral clip. The description of the video stated that Russia, using Kh-101 missiles, hit several targets, including a hospital, in Ukraine's capital on July 8, 2024. According to an Associated Press report from the time, Russia conducted a massive missile attack, targeting five Ukrainian cities and damaging the country's largest children's hospital, Okhmatdyt. However, Russia denied attacking the hospital and said that it had only struck military targets. Russia used Kh-101 missiles in this attack, and Ukraine claimed to have shot down 11 of them.Thus, it is evident that an almost-year-old video is being falsely shared as a recent Russian retaliatory strike on Ukraine.(Written by Abhishek Pathak)Must Watch
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