Thread by @ReutersFacts

While authentic footage and images shared by journalists and local residents documented Russia's invasion of Ukraine (see: reut.rs/3vk9mx3), @ReutersFacts also identified mislabeled imagery

A video first uploaded to social media in Jan. 2022 showing lightning strike at a power plant is being shared online with misleading captions relating to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine reut.rs/3t1JTpm

An old video of a large explosion at an undisclosed location has been shared online as evidence of a major development in Russia’s February invasion of Ukraine reut.rs/3LTFUnr

A video of a Russian flag flying in Odessa was not filmed during Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24 reut.rs/34XXCFL

A video showing hundreds of paratroopers descending to the ground dates to at least September 2016 and is unrelated to the February 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine reut.rs/3vfhPBh

A video showing aircraft flying in formation over tall buildings has been falsely linked to the 2022 Ukraine crisis reut.rs/3sfEc7M

A photograph of a aircraft in flames which dates to a 1993 collision at the RAF Fairford airshow in the UK and has no link to 2022 Ukraine crisis was widely recirculated reut.rs/3HjqPrD

A clip of a nighttime explosion in a built-up area falsely linked to the 2022 Ukraine crisis was filmed in 2015 in a storage facility in the port city of Tianjin, China reut.rs/3K8CWK7

A video of a plane being shot down by Libyan rebels in Benghazi in 2011 has been shared by some social media users who claim it shows a Russian jet attacked by Ukrainian forces reut.rs/3HhEZJG

Footage of aircraft flying amid nighttime artillery fire was created with 3D animation and is not related to the conflict in Ukraine, despite claims on social media reut.rs/34Z0vpL

A clip being shared on social media that appears to show soldiers in a field under heavy incoming fire can be found online since 2018, predating the Russian attack on Ukraine reut.rs/3hgnCi6

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has said that despite being the "number one target" he plans to stay in Kyiv in the face of the Russian attack. However, photos of him in military garb being shared on social media were taken in December 2021 reut.rs/3hg5DrM

Some social media users are sharing the video of an explosion at a Ukrainian ammunition warehouse. The footage, however, dates to at least March 2017 and is unconnected to the Russian invasion of Ukraine reut.rs/3vhXpI1

A clip from the videogame Digital Combat Simulator has been miscaptioned online, with social media users claiming it shows a Ukrainian fighter jet shooting down a Russian plane reut.rs/3snw0lW

A clip of artillery fire from what looks like a military camp in low light is unrelated to the Russian invasion of Ukraine and dates to at least 2019, despite the clip being shared widely by social media users reut.rs/3M6eevm

Drone footage of armored vehicles involved in a conflict is being shared online with claims it shows Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The video, however, does not relate to the offensive and was filmed at least as early as March 2020 reut.rs/35vHRW4