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- The original video appeared as early as May this year. At that time, there were rumors that Crimea Bridge had been blown up, but this statement was later refuted by Crimea officials.
incident background
According to multiple Russian media reports, in the early morning of October 8 local time, a truck exploded on the road bridge of the Crimea Bridge, causing seven oil tanks of a freight train on the railway bridge parallel to the road bridge to catch fire, and some sections of the road bridge were damaged. The Russian Federation Investigation Committee said that according to preliminary statistics, the accident caused three deaths. An investigation into the cause of the explosion is underway. After the
incident, many scenes of suspected moments of the explosion of the Crimea Bridge were uploaded on social platforms at home and abroad. One of the 12-second videos showed an explosion of fire at the 6th second, and the car body shook violently.
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uses video processing software InVid to intercept the keyframes of the online video. After searching the pictures in the Yandex search engine, it was found that the original video had appeared at least in early May this year. On May 9, an Twitter account, the "Kursk People's Republic" (Курская Народная Республика) posted the above video, saying that "the Kursk People's Republic of China launched a missile attack on the Crimea Bridge." The tweet also includes a screenshot of the suspected report titled "Something hit hard: Witnesses report an emergency on the Crimea Bridge."
"Kursk People's Republic" Twitter screenshot.
The above account was registered in April 2022, and as of press time, there were only 240 followers. In fact, Russia does not have the so-called "Kursk People's Republic", let alone the "air force". Kursk Oblast is located in western Russia and borders Ukraine. The web illustrations attached to the
video, after a counter-search, can be confirmed that it is not a photo of the explosion site of the Crimea Bridge. It was first published in 2019. According to the local media Kirid of Afghanistan, it is a picture of the Big Explosion in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan on July 1, 2019.
Screenshot of the report of Kirid in Afghanistan.
Al Jazeera (Al-Jazeera) reported that a truck loaded with bombs exploded outside the Afghan Ministry of Defense building, killing 16 people and injuring 105 people, including 51 children and 5 women. Afghan Taliban announced responsibility for the attack.
Al Jazeera reported on the Big Bang Kabul screenshot.
In early May this year, news broke out on social networks that an explosion occurred on the Crimea Bridge. Russian News Agency 5 on May 9 quoted Oleg Kryuchkov, an information policy official in Crimea, to refute information about the explosion on the Crimean Bridge, calling it "false Ukrainian propaganda."
Russian News Agency in May this year refuted the rumor that the Crimea Bridge exploded.
In addition, the details of the video do not match the actual situation when the explosion occurred. The Russian National Counter-Terrorism Commission said the explosion occurred at 6:07 a.m. local time on October 8. According to information displayed on the weather service website timeanddate.com, on October 8, the sunrise time in Kerch, where the Crimea Bridge is located, was around 6:40. Therefore, the explosion happened in a dark night. This can also be confirmed in other official images of the explosion scene. However, when the video was rumored to be filmed online, it was obviously bright, so it was impossible to take the moment of the explosion of the Crimea Bridge.
timeanddate.com shows that the sunrise time of Kerch on the 8th is 6:40 am.
Explosion scene video screenshot.
To sum up, the video of the explosion of the Crimea Bridge on the Internet is misleading. On October 8, the sunrise time of Kerch, where the Crimea Bridge is located, was 6:40 am, and the explosion occurred at 6:07 am. When the fashion was night, the video was taken during the day, which was inconsistent with the facts. "Pengpai Mingcha" failed to find the exact source of the video, but it can be confirmed that the original video had appeared as early as May this year. At that time, there were rumors that the Crimean Bridge had been blown up, but this statement later denied the rumors for Crimean officials.
