A video showing an armed vehicle blowing up has gone viral on social media platforms, with social media users claiming that it shows China's long-range missile PL-15 exploding and also capturing Pakistani soldiers in the process.
This claim comes amid the ongoing India-Pakistan conflict.
We received a query about this on our WhatsApp tipline number, as well. (Archives of similar claims can be found here and here.)
Is the claim true?: No, the claim is false. We were able to trace this video to 2024 and as per reports the video shows a Russian anti-aircraft gun detonating 'somewhere in Ukraine.'
What we found: At first, we divided the video into multiple screenshots and ran a Google reverse image search on some of them.
We, then, came across the same video on X. It was uploaded by a user on 4 July 2024.
The user noted, "Detonation of ammunition on a Russian MT-LB with installed S-60 anti-aircraft gun." (sic.)
This established that the video was not recent or linked to the India-Pakistan conflict.
We, then, ran a relevant keyword search and came across a report by Kyiv Post from 5 July 2024.
The report noted that a Ukrainian milblogger Operational ZSU shared a video on 4 July 2024, capturing the moment when an AZP S-60 Soviet-era towed, medium-range, single-barrel anti-aircraft gun, used by Russian forces in an undisclosed area in Ukraine, dramatically exploded.
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