Dashcam video doesn’t show Crimean Bridge explosion

An explosion on Oct. 8 brought about a partial collapse of the Crimean Bridge, often known as the Kerch Bridge, over the Kerch Strait that hyperlinks the Crimean Peninsula with Russia. 

Following the explosion, a video clip was posted a number of occasions across Twitter that claimed to show the second a missile struck the bridge. The video appeared to come back from a dashcam inside a car that was touring throughout the Crimean Bridge.

“BREAKING. The moment the #CrimeanBridge EXPLODED,” one tweet said.

• InVid, a video forensics device 
• RevEye, a reverse picture search device
• Google Maps
• Yandex, a Russia-based search engine
• Takvim, a Turkish each day newspaper
• Old video posted to Twitter and TikTok in May 2022
• Dashcam footage from March 2022

No, a viral dashcam video doesn’t show the Crimean Bridge explosion. The video was first posted months earlier than the explosion happened and is a compilation of a number of movies. 

The video in its entirety, which was made utilizing elements from completely different movies, was printed to Twitter, TikTok and Russian social media in May, months earlier than the Crimean Bridge explosion happened. 

The viral footage that claims to show the “moment” the bridge exploded additionally reveals the alleged influence taking place throughout the day. Security footage taken from the precise explosion on Oct. 8 reveals the bridge blowing up whereas nonetheless darkish.

Using InVid, VERIFY break up the video into particular person keyframes and carried out a reverse picture search of every keyframe.

A portion of the video does show the Crimean Bridge, which will be confirmed by evaluating scenes from the video and images that have been posted to Google Maps. The identical tall arches on both sides of the bridge will be seen on these photographs and likewise within the video. But it wasn’t taken the day of the explosion, as a result of this actual clip was posted in May 2022. 

Not solely does the video pre-date the October explosion, we will additionally verify a portion of the 12-second video was edited to incorporate a flash from a completely completely different explosion. 

At the 6-second mark of the video, a big flash of white will be seen earlier than it cuts distorted photographs, as if the digicam was on throughout an explosion. VERIFY targeted on this keyframe from the video, exhibiting a flash from the explosion:

The flashes from the explosion have been really lifted from dashcam footage that was taken in March from a missile strike within the northern Ukraine metropolis of Kharkiv. 

VERIFY was capable of observe this down utilizing image search results from Yandex, a Russian search engine, which led to an article published by Turkish daily newspaper Takvim in June 2022, which printed photographs and movies from completely different missile strikes throughout Ukraine for the reason that begin of the conflict. 

One of the photographs within the article was the precise picture of the explosion (seen above) VERIFY traced utilizing reverse picture looking. The article mentioned the picture was a screenshot from dashcam footage taken throughout the explosion within the northern Ukraine metropolis of Kharkiv.

Using the information printed within the Takvim article concerning the picture from the explosion in Kharkiv, we found the full video showing the explosion in Kharkiv.

So, not solely can we verify the video was not taken from the Crimean Bridge explosion, however the whole video was edited to mix previous footage of the Crimean bridge and photographs from a missile strike in Kharkiv, posted on-line months earlier than the Oct. 8 bridge explosion.

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