A recent Facebook post featured a video showing a massive explosion and suggested Ukraine was hit by a nuclear weapon. It was not. News coverage of the incident by credible sources don’t mention a nuclear attack.
featured a short TikTok video showing an explosion along with the question:"Did Ukraine just get nuked?" The video shows a loud explosion and a large smoke cloud. Men and women can be heard screaming in the background. A piece of text on the video says in Spanish:"Brutal. Explosion in Pavlograd, Ukraine."
This post was flagged as part of Meta’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. Although the explosion appears significant, producing a thunderous noise and billowing smoke, it is not the result of a nuclear bomb. An image search using frames of the Facebook video brings up ashows a Russian missile strike that happened overnight between April 30 and May 1 in the Ukrainian city of Pavlohrad . The article says the strike caused"a significant blaze and secondary detonations.
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