'Battle of Kursk (JAugust 23, 1943, also known as the Battle of the Kursk Bulge) Please do not unleash national differences !!!! let's live together !!!!' it was a parade of military equipment dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the defeat of the German troops !!! The video's description translates as: 'There is profanity, I apologise of course for this !!! it's emotions. Kursk is a city located in western Russia, about 525 kilometres (326 miles) from Moscow ( archived link). The Russian-language title reads: 'A T-34 tank fell in Kursk'. Kursk paradeĪ Google reverse image search found the clip in the misleading posts corresponds to a longer video published on YouTube on Aug( archived link). AFP found no official reports about a tank toppling over at the 2023 parade in Moscow. The video has in fact circulated since 2018. Similar misleading posts in Chinese and English shared the video on Twitter, Weibo, YouTube and Facebook. Russian President Vladimir Putin nonetheless vowed his country would be victorious in Ukraine and blamed Western countries for the conflict ( archived link). The posts circulated one day after Russia celebrated Victory Day, marking the Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany with a grand parade in Moscow - an event that this year was overshadowed by military setbacks in Ukraine ( archived link). Screenshot of the misleading post taken on May 17, 2023 The hashtag translates as 'Latest news from Ukraine'. It reads in English: 'Why is no one sharing this? This T34 would have been dragged to the Ukrainian front line after the exhibition, then this scene happened - Russians call it 'playing dead'.' The post's simplified-Chinese caption appears to mock the clumsy actions of the Russian tank driver. It shows a tank attempting to drive up onto the back of another vehicle before sliding off the side and toppling over. The 11-second clip was shared on Twitter on May 10, 2023, where it was retweeted more than 300 times. The clip - which recirculated shortly after a military parade in Moscow in May 2023 - corresponds with media reports from 2018 about an accident at another event in the western Russian city of Kursk. An old video of a Russian tank toppling over at a military parade has been viewed tens of thousands of times in posts that misleadingly claim the driver who overturned the vehicle subsequently avoided being sent to the front line in the war against Ukraine.

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