Wrote: Fatbardh Dema
A photo showing a tank has been published, accompanied by the caption: "Albania's powerful army in Europe Defender 2025."
This post was published on May 31st on X (formerly Twitter) by the Albanian language account "corona".
The truth?
After fact-checking conducted by hibrid.info, it was confirmed that the tank is Russian and the photo is old, published in 2015.
After research conducted through the automated program "InVID", this photograph was found published in the British media "DailyMail.co.uk” in June 2015. In the description of the image, it is clarified that this Russian tank is called T-14 Army and the photo was taken at the Victory Day parade in May 2015. (see photo below)
Screenshot from the article published on DailyMail.co.uk
A little context
The largest military exercise in Europe, “Defender Europe 2025” began on May 25 with the participation of over 25,000 soldiers from 29 NATO allies and partners. Kosovo and Albania are hosting this major exercise, which will run until June 6. (here)
Analyze:
A photo of a tank was shared on X claiming to belong to the Albanian army in the "Europe Defender 2025" exercise.
After verifying the facts, it was confirmed that the photo depicts the Russian T-14 Armata tank and was taken in Moscow in 2015.
Based on its work methodology, hibrid.info assesses this claim as "Unverified Content".
Reasoning:
The "Unverified" rating is given to those informative contents that do not provide sufficient information to confirm the claims made in the report, and which could not be verified due to certain circumstances (speed, lack of sources) during the publication of the content.