The online media outlet “Gazetametro.com” has published an article claiming that several Russian soldiers were parachuted into Kharkiv, Ukraine, and that one of them filmed himself during the descent. This video was published yesterday (February 24) by a TikTok user named “romanadler123” (see here).
Hibrid.info has verified the facts in this article, which turns out to be incorrect, as the video is not current and was shot in 2015.
After searching social media, hibrid.info found the video posted by an Instagram profile with the same name as the TikTok one (romanadler123), posted on August 25, 2015.
Link to the article published on "Gazetametro.com":
So, the video is old and has no relation to the current situation in Ukraine. (see here)
The video is found in the article published by Gazetametro.com (see here). But after a few hours, the same link to this video is not accessible.
Analyze:
The portal "Gazetametro.com" has published a video claiming that in Kharkiv, Ukraine, several Russian soldiers were parachuted, and one of them recorded himself during the descent.
Hibrid.info, after searching with the same username "romanadler123", has found the authentic video published by this user on the social network Instagram, where it can be seen that this video was posted on August 25, 2015 and has no connection to the current situation in Ukraine, as claimed in the Gazetametro.com article.
Based on its work methodology, hibrid.info has assessed this article as "Disinformation".
Reasoning:
A “Disinformation” rating is given to media reporting that contains a “mix” of inaccurate sources or even half-truthful content. This rating will also address reports that have incorrect attributions or headlines that do not reflect the text in terms of information accuracy.