Poland shot down Russian drones after they violated its national airspace during an attack on Ukraine overnight into Wednesday.
Shortly after the incident, videos and images that purport to depict the incident have circulated online, as well as propaganda and disinformation from Russia, Polish officials say.
Russia claimed that Poland itself has been spreading “myths” about the drone incursion to “aggravate the Ukrainian crisis.”
At the same time, pro-Kremlin media outlets and military bloggers are actively spreading disinformation about the drones, falsely asserting that there is no evidence that Russian drones were shot down.
DW Fact Check looks at three examples of the numerous videos and claims about the drones being shared on social media.
The photo above, for example, is from a video that has been widely shared on TikTok, with the description of one of the video reads “5 Minutes ago! Polish NATO Jets destroy record number of Shahed drones.”
But that is fake. The video scenes do not show the recent drones that entered Polish airspace, but are from the video game Àrma 3.
Read DW’s full fact-check article here.
