Twitter is alight with clips that allegedly show a Ukrainian jet soaring through the skies over several cities and shooting down six Kremlin planes in dogfights on the first day of Vladimir Putin’s aggressive war against the former Soviet republic.
However, one video which got nearly 5million views and spawned the rumours has been thoroughly debunked as a clip from the 2008 videogame Digital Combat Simulator, with a Reuters Fact Check concluding: ‘A vertical video shared online does not show a Ukrainian fighter jet shooting down a Russian plane, but comes from the videogame DCS.’
Despite this, Kyiv is now openly promoting claims that the unnamed pilot exists, in an apparent bid to rally the besieged nation behind an urban hero and fuel support for Ukraine’s war effort.
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moviegame.My 18 yr old also claimed that Ukraine captured a fisticious Russian Army "legend" named The Great Babushka.
When I was a kid, the Great Babushka was a story of a Russian magician.
Movie. Magic.
That is all.
Next they'll tell us Baba Yaga was seen riding her mortal and pestle across the sky.