Missiles or Video Game?
This video, shared by several Twitter accounts after Russia invaded Ukraine, has been billed as “Ukraine launching anti aircraft missiles into the night.” In reality, it’s animated footage from the video game War Thunder.
How can someone possibly confuse a video game for reality? When you find versions online that aren’t quite so desaturated as the ones currently going viral you can see much easier that it’s not real.
Oddly, Russian state media and the country’s Ministry of Defense have a long history of trying to pass off video game footage as real battle footage—like they did in 2017 and 2018.
