Digitized images are from a video game; they’re not from Ukraine war footage

A recent Facebook post suggests that the video featured in it shows footage of the war in Ukraine. 

"Russia has lost more than 680 tanks," the April 3 post says. "American AT vs Soviet tanks."

The four-minute video clip shows tanks in wooded terrain, some aflame after being hit by a rocket. But the scenes are clearly digitized. That’s because the footage is from a video game. 

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Searching for the post’s video description turns up a YouTube post from about a year earlier. It has the same description, but identifies the video as being from "Arma 3," a military simulation game. 

We rate claims that this clip shows real footage from the war in Ukraine False.