A video of rockets being transferred to Moscow ahead of a yearly military parade has actually been incorrectly shared in posts that declared it revealed nuclear weapons carried on the orders of Russian President Vladimir Putin after he alerted the West versus sending out soldiers to assist Ukraine. The video remained in reality shot before Putin provided the alerting about the “genuine” threat of nuclear war in February 2024.
“Vladimir Putin bought an across the country transfer of nuclear weapons!” check out the streamlined Chinese caption of a video on X that was shared on February 29, 2024.
It reveals military automobiles driving down a highway during the night. They seem carrying rockets, and are attached with a Russian flag and the flag of the armed force’s Strategic Rocket Forces (archived link).
The clip was shared after Putin alerted of a “genuine” threat of nuclear war if the West were to send out soldiers to eliminate in Ukraine, which has actually been at war given that Russia attacked in February 2022.
“The effects for possible interventionists will be a lot more awful,” he stated in a yearly address to the country from Moscow.
The video was shared in comparable posts on TikTok and Chinese video-sharing platform Bilibili.
The video, nevertheless, distributed before Putin’s nuclear caution.
Military parade
A reverse image search and keyword searches on Google discovered the video was published on Telegram by the Russian defence ministry on February 27 (archived link).
According to the Telegram post, the video reveals Yars rockets released in the Ivanovo area showing up in Alabino near Moscow ahead of a military parade on Red Square.
The yearly Success Day parade on Might 9 celebrates the Soviet Union’s defeat of Nazi Germany in The Second World War and has actually ended up being Russia’s essential public vacation.
In a bold speech at the parade, Putin repeated that his nuclear forces were “constantly” on alert.
Less than a fortnight later on, Moscow revealed that tactical nuclear weapons drills would begin near to Ukraine, in what it stated was an action to Western “hazards”.
Below is a screenshot contrast of the video shared in the incorrect posts (left) and in the Russian defence ministry’s Telegram post (right):
The exact same video was shared by Russian tv channel Vmeste-RF, while the images drawn from the clips were likewise released by the state-run news company RIA (archived links here and here).
According to Russia’s state-run TASS news company, workers and military devices from the Teikovo rocket development in the Ivanovo area have actually taken part in military parades on Red Square given that 2008 (archived link).
The Russian defence ministry has actually likewise formerly released video revealing the transport of military devices to the Success Day parade (archived link).