OP 28 February, 2022 - 12:16 AM
s the 'Ghost of Kyiv' REAL? Ukraine seizes on rumors' of flying ace who shot down six Russian jets with new video of masked pilot - as they reuse debunked computer game footage
The Ukrainian government has seized on unsubstantiated rumors' that an unnamed MiG-29 fighter pilot dubbed the ‘Ghost of Kyiv’ has downed several Russian jets by sharing a macho propaganda video containing footage from a videogame.
Twitter is alight with clips that allegedly show a Ukrainian jet soaring through the skies over several cities and shooting down six Kremlin planes in dogfights on the first day of Vladimir Putin’s aggressive war against the former Soviet republic.
However, one video which got nearly 5million views and spawned the rumors' has been thoroughly debunked as a clip from the 2008 videogame Digital Combat Simulator, with a Reuters Fact Check concluding: ‘A vertical video shared online does not show a Ukrainian fighter jet shooting down a Russian plane, but comes from the videogame DCS.’
Full article here: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...-REAL.html
The Ukrainian government has seized on unsubstantiated rumors' that an unnamed MiG-29 fighter pilot dubbed the ‘Ghost of Kyiv’ has downed several Russian jets by sharing a macho propaganda video containing footage from a videogame.
Twitter is alight with clips that allegedly show a Ukrainian jet soaring through the skies over several cities and shooting down six Kremlin planes in dogfights on the first day of Vladimir Putin’s aggressive war against the former Soviet republic.
However, one video which got nearly 5million views and spawned the rumors' has been thoroughly debunked as a clip from the 2008 videogame Digital Combat Simulator, with a Reuters Fact Check concluding: ‘A vertical video shared online does not show a Ukrainian fighter jet shooting down a Russian plane, but comes from the videogame DCS.’
Full article here: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...-REAL.html
