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Message: <blockquote data-quote="priyade" data-source="post: 27420576" data-attributes="member: 565365"><img src="https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/4EB6/production/_123405102_0000--1.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><h2>Phantom jets</h2>In the opening hours of the conflict, several videos claiming to be the Russian air force operating over Ukraine were posted and went viral on social media.One clip, which has subsequently been deleted, shows a fighter jet flying over an urban area. It is accompanied by a caption which implies it was filmed in the current Ukraine conflict.<img src="https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/EAF6/production/_123405106_00000.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />A second clip shows formations of fighters and bombers flying over an urban area to the sound of air raid sirens.Checks made by the BBC found that the footage showed preparations for a military parade flypast in 2020. The sound of an air raid siren had been dubbed over the original audio.Another video clip claims to show Russian paratroopers landing near the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv.<img src="https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/16026/production/_123405109_2-1.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />It's been viewed hundreds of thousands of times on Twitter, but actually first appeared on Russian-language internet in 2016.A fourth clip shared widely on Twitter and YouTube is labelled as showing a Russian jet being shot down over Ukraine.<img src="https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/6B3A/production/_123405472_0000-self-deleted.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />This footage is from Libya and is over 10 years oldHowever, BBC journalists have seen this footage before. It's a Libyan government aircraft being shot down by rebels over Benghazi in 2011.Voices on the video can be heard celebrating in Arabic.Some imagery does not show combat operations at all.Footage of an explosion behind some apartment blocks claims to be from the city of Mariupol in south-eastern Ukraine.</blockquote>

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