Posted on 4/15/2022, 7:12:42 AM by McGruff
CLAIM: A photo shows the Russian warship Moskva on fire in the Black Sea.
AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. The image has been manipulated. The original shows a 2019 fire aboard a Tanzanian commercial vessel in the Kerch Strait, near the Black Sea. The edited version was cropped, flipped horizontally and colored green.
THE FACTS: After Ukraine said Thursday that a missile attack by its forces hit the Moskva, the flagship of Russia’s Black Sea fleet, a “night vision” photo purporting to show the vessel on fire emerged online. Moscow said the vessel was merely damaged in a fire, making no mention of an assault.
The blurry image showed a ball of fire and a plume of dark smoke rising from the water. Beside the fire, a long rectangular vessel can be seen with a smaller, lighter plume of smoke near it.
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