The video shows visuals of the game Arma-3. It has no relation with the ongoing war between Russia Ukraine.
After Russia announced its military operation in Ukraine, videos and images of blasts and attacks populated on social media platforms. In the backdrop of this, a video is circulating on social media claiming that it allegedly shows a live video of the war between Russia and Ukraine. Video shows a gun firing down a jet that is throwing bombs on the buildings.
The caption of the video reads, “Russia vs Ukraine live war video.”
Fact Check-
We started our investigation by going through the comments of the viral video where we found several users commenting that this video is not real and is of a video game.
Keeping this in mind, we ran a keyword search on YouTube that led us to a video published by a YouTube channel named Compared Comparison on 6 January 2022. The caption of the video reads, “A-10 Warthog Missile Gun Run – C-RAM – Military Simulation – ArmA 3 #Shorts.”
The caption and the description of the video clearly state that this video shows visuals of the video game Arma-3.
What is ARMA-3?
ARMA 3 is an open-world, realism-based, military tactical shooting video game developed and published by Bohemia Interactive, a Czech video game developer based in Prague.
Fact Crescendo has previously debunked several video game visuals that have been shared as visuals of the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine. You can read it here and here.
Conclusion-
Fact Crescendo found the claim made along with the viral video to be False. The viral video does not show real-time footage of the war between Russia and Ukraine. This video is not live footage of the war but shows visuals of the game Arma-3.
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Title:Arma-3 video game visuals shared as live video of war between Russia and Ukraine
Fact Check By: Aavya RayResult: False
