Fact Check: 10-year-old video from Canada shared as Russian troops’ movement in Ukraine
India Today
A video of a goods train carrying armoured tanks and military equipment went viral, with the claim that it was Russian weaponry en route to Ukraine. India Today Anti-Fake News War room ( AFWA) has found the video to be from Canada.
A video of a goods train carrying armoured tanks and military equipment has gone viral with the claim that this was Russian weaponry on its way to Ukraine.
This video along with the claim went viral on Facebook at the time when, as per the news reports, Russia sent a 40-mile-long convoy to the northern side of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv.
One of the Facebook posts sharing the viral video claimed, “Russia has sent lots of Arms, Tanks, Weapons to the capital city of Ukraine on a Goods Train which is VIRTUALLY ENDLESS!”
The India Today Anti-Fake News War room (AFWA) found this video was not from Russia or Ukraine at all. It was first uploaded to YouTube in 2012 and shows a Canadian National Railways train carrying ground force equipment for the Canadian armed forces.
Looking carefully at the viral video, we saw “CN” written on the locomotive engine. The engine number mentioned at the top was “2235”. The logo for the Canadian National Railway, the Canadian freight railway company, is similar to the “CN” seen on the engine.
We tried to find the original video with the help of the InVID tool and reverse image search. We found that the viral video has been on the internet for several years now.
Initial searches on Yandex or on Google, however, led us to YouTube videos that claimed it showed Russian forces.