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| - Fact Check: This video DOES NOT show June 6 blast at Ukraine's Nova Kakhovka dam, it's from 2022
India Today found that the video was first uploaded on the website of the pro-war Russian newspaper Izvestia in 2022.
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This video shows a November 2022 blast that happened on a road running across the Nova Kakhovka dam.
On June 6, the Nova Kakhovka dam in a Russian-controlled region of southern Ukraine was breached, creating fears of wide-scale flooding in the area. According to reports, around 22,000 people living across 14 settlements in Ukraine's Kherson region were at risk of flooding.
Meanwhile, several videos, allegedly showing the damaged dam have been circulated on social media. Among them is CCTV footage which purportedly shows the Nova Kakhovka dam blowing up. In the video, one can see a dam operating as normal. Suddenly there is a blast followed by a flash of light. “The moment that the Nova Kakhovka dam was blown up,” tweeted a person while sharing the video. The archived version of such posts can be seen here and here.
India Today found that the video has been on the internet since as early as November 2022. As per the media reports from that time, it showed an explosion on a bridge that leads to the Nova Kakhovka dam and the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant.
OUR PROBE
Replying to the viral post, a Twitter account named War in Ukraine pointed out that they had shared the same video on November 12, 2022. According to this account, the footage showed a blast at the bridge across the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant.
With the help of a keyword search, we found the same video in reports by the BBC and The Telegraph that it was published on November 12, 2022. Per these reports as well, the video showed an explosion at a road that runs across the Nova Kakhovka dam.
Per The Telegraph, the video was first uploaded on the website of the pro-war Russian newspaper Izvestia. According to the Izvestia report, Russian soldiers blew up the road running across the dam to slow the Ukrainian advance. The blast reportedly caused damage to sections of the Nova Kakhovka dam.
The incident was also reported by The New York Times ( https://www.nytimes.com/2022/
It is hence clear that the video in question is around seven months old and not related to the recent attack on the Nova Kakhovka dam.
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