{"id":112304,"date":"2022-02-24T17:25:46","date_gmt":"2022-02-24T11:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=112304"},"modified":"2022-02-24T18:22:03","modified_gmt":"2022-02-24T12:52:03","slug":"times-now-republic-air-old-video-of-fighter-jets-as-russian-invasion-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/times-now-republic-air-old-video-of-fighter-jets-as-russian-invasion-in-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian media outlets air old video of fighter jets as Russian invasion in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amid the ongoing Russian military operations in Ukraine, several Indian media outlets broadcas a video clip of fighter planes flying at a low altitude over a city. <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20220224093901\/https:\/\/twitter.com\/TimesNow\/status\/1496759526548144130\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Times Now<\/a> tweeted the clip along with the text, &#8220;#RussiaUkraineCrisis: Ukraine says 5 Russian planes, 1 helicopter shot down in Luhansk #PutinOnTheMarch #Russia #Ukraine. [sic]&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RussiaUkraineCrisis?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#RussiaUkraineCrisis<\/a>: Ukraine says 5 Russian planes, 1 helicopter shot down in Luhansk<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PutinOnTheMarch?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PutinOnTheMarch<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Russia?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Russia<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Ukraine?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Ukraine<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yl1SR70lhc\">pic.twitter.com\/yl1SR70lhc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 TIMES NOW (@TimesNow) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TimesNow\/status\/1496759526548144130?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 24, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Jan Ki Baat <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jankibaat1\/status\/1496742470343819267\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweeted<\/a> the same video along with the text, &#8220;BREAKING : Russia Launches Air strike on Khariv, Ukraine [sic]&#8221;. This video gained over 2,000 retweets.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-112305 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/02\/Screenshot-2022-02-24-at-15.40.16.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"944\" height=\"1374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/02\/Screenshot-2022-02-24-at-15.40.16.jpg 944w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/02\/Screenshot-2022-02-24-at-15.40.16-206x300.jpg 206w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/02\/Screenshot-2022-02-24-at-15.40.16-704x1024.jpg 704w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/02\/Screenshot-2022-02-24-at-15.40.16-768x1118.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 944px) 100vw, 944px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/3AuMcvDSsrI\">News24<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3jn4kiRhWp0&amp;ab_channel=RepublicWorld\">Republic World<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wJJ4CWJ2s1w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Zee News<\/a> and NewsX also aired the video as footage of the ongoing Ukraine crisis.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-112304 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-full'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/times-now-republic-air-old-video-of-fighter-jets-as-russian-invasion-in-ukraine\/screenshot-2022-02-24-at-15-36-25\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1980\" height=\"1464\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/02\/Screenshot-2022-02-24-at-15.36.25.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/02\/Screenshot-2022-02-24-at-15.36.25.jpg 1980w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/02\/Screenshot-2022-02-24-at-15.36.25-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/02\/Screenshot-2022-02-24-at-15.36.25-1024x757.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/02\/Screenshot-2022-02-24-at-15.36.25-768x568.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/02\/Screenshot-2022-02-24-at-15.36.25-1536x1136.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1980px) 100vw, 1980px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/times-now-republic-air-old-video-of-fighter-jets-as-russian-invasion-in-ukraine\/screenshot-2022-02-24-at-15-45-02\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1934\" height=\"1468\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/02\/Screenshot-2022-02-24-at-15.45.02.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/02\/Screenshot-2022-02-24-at-15.45.02.jpg 1934w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/02\/Screenshot-2022-02-24-at-15.45.02-300x228.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/02\/Screenshot-2022-02-24-at-15.45.02-1024x777.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/02\/Screenshot-2022-02-24-at-15.45.02-768x583.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/02\/Screenshot-2022-02-24-at-15.45.02-1536x1166.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1934px) 100vw, 1934px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/times-now-republic-air-old-video-of-fighter-jets-as-russian-invasion-in-ukraine\/fmwqt_uxiaeo39c\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"820\" height=\"860\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/02\/FMWQt_UXIAEO39c.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/02\/FMWQt_UXIAEO39c.jpeg 820w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/02\/FMWQt_UXIAEO39c-286x300.jpeg 286w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/02\/FMWQt_UXIAEO39c-768x805.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 100vw, 820px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/times-now-republic-air-old-video-of-fighter-jets-as-russian-invasion-in-ukraine\/index-44\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"927\" height=\"694\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/02\/index-10.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/02\/index-10.jpg 927w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/02\/index-10-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/02\/index-10-768x575.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 927px) 100vw, 927px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<h4>Old, unrelated video<\/h4>\n<p>Using the video verification tool InVID, we performed a reverse image search of the video&#8217;s keyframes and found that the video was uploaded by a YouTube channel on May 4, 2020. As per the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JQkO5XsQMag&amp;ab_channel=Lessony\">YouTube video&#8217;s<\/a> title, it is from Moscow.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-112311 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/02\/Screenshot-2022-02-24-at-16.13.48.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1980\" height=\"1434\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/02\/Screenshot-2022-02-24-at-16.13.48.jpg 1980w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/02\/Screenshot-2022-02-24-at-16.13.48-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/02\/Screenshot-2022-02-24-at-16.13.48-1024x742.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/02\/Screenshot-2022-02-24-at-16.13.48-768x556.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/02\/Screenshot-2022-02-24-at-16.13.48-1536x1112.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1980px) 100vw, 1980px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Russia celebrates Victory Day, a holiday that commemorates the surrender of Nazi Germany in 1945, on May 9 each year. There are several such media reports and clips on YouTube. <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/8fY9-FYIOIU\">The Moscow Times<\/a> reported that V-Day rehearsals in 2020 took place on May 4. In this video, we spotted the identical formation of jets as seen in the viral video.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-112312 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/02\/Screenshot-2022-02-24-at-16.14.56.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1958\" height=\"1438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/02\/Screenshot-2022-02-24-at-16.14.56.jpg 1958w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/02\/Screenshot-2022-02-24-at-16.14.56-300x220.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/02\/Screenshot-2022-02-24-at-16.14.56-1024x752.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/02\/Screenshot-2022-02-24-at-16.14.56-768x564.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/02\/Screenshot-2022-02-24-at-16.14.56-1536x1128.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1958px) 100vw, 1958px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To sum it up, several Indian media outlets shared a two-year-old video of aircraft flying in Russia with the false claim that it shows the country&#8217;s recent military operations in Ukraine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid the ongoing Russian military operations in Ukraine, several Indian media outlets broadcas a video clip of fighter planes flying at a low altitude over a city. Times Now tweeted the clip along with the text, &#8220;#RussiaUkraineCrisis: Ukraine says 5 Russian planes, 1 helicopter shot down in Luhansk #PutinOnTheMarch #Russia #Ukraine. [sic]&#8221; #RussiaUkraineCrisis: Ukraine says [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":112343,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282,39],"tags":[693],"an_content_type":[739,742],"coauthors":[682],"class_list":["post-112304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media-analysis","category-news","tag-featured","fact_checks_claim_type-viral-videos","an_content_type-fact-check","an_content_type-media-analysis"],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/02\/Untitled-design3-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112304"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112340,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112304\/revisions\/112340"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112304"},{"taxonomy":"an_content_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/an_content_type?post=112304"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=112304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}