A comic video from 2018 was passed off as evidence of a MiG-29 crash in Libya
08.09.2020 23:46
(Moscow time), Moscow
A video of a Russian pilot whose plane was allegedly shot down in Libya already appeared in the media in 2018. The story of the video was told by an online publication "New statements".
On Tuesday, the Fighterbomber Telegram channel published a video of the evacuation of an unknown pilot from the emergency landing site. In the description of the video, neither the location, nor the date, nor the model of the allegedly downed plane, which was not present in any form in the footage, were mentioned.
However, other sources and the media for some reason concluded that the video was filmed in Libya, and it was the Russian MiG-29 fighter that crashed. It is noteworthy that there were no reports of this before.
Thank you!
Now the editors are aware.