A storm of questions arose during the past days after accounts and pages on social media circulated a video clip showing Russian forces shooting down NATO planes (NATO) upon entering Ukrainian airspace.
Their fighters and helicopters to help Ukraine sent behind NATO?
As soon as they reached the border, they were attacked by Russian missiles and no one escaped.
Chinese media reported the news. pic.twitter.com/qDhpjOWKIu
– Nasser Al-Nasser (@atras10) June 4, 2022
The video received thousands of views and comments, in which it was stated that Russian forces destroyed NATO fighters and helicopters as soon as they entered Ukrainian airspace.
However, these scenes, are nothing but excerpts from an electronic game, of a helicopter flying in the sky of a battlefield, then being hit by a projectile and falling down, according to what was reported by Agence France-Presse.
A search for the clip on Internet engines showed that it was posted on a YouTube account, which deals with electronic games, on the seventh of last April.
It was also found that the half attached to the same video was cut from the Arma-3 game, videos of which are often used in misleading claims on social media.