Footage<\/span> of a blast in Ukraine has been falsely presented online as showing a scene from the 12-day war between Iran and Israel. The video matches visuals of a neighbourhood in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv.<\/h3>\n“Seconds before Iran’s missile hit Israeli city<\/span>,” reads an Indonesian-language\u00a0TikTok<\/a> post shared on June 28, 2025.<\/p>\nThe short video shows an explosion at night near a building complex.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\nScreenshot of the false post captured July 8, 2025, with a red X added by AFP<\/span><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nThe video also surfaced on\u00a0Facebook<\/a>, Instagram<\/a> and YouTube<\/a>, and was shared in posts written in English<\/a>, Arabic<\/a> and Azerbaijani<\/a>.<\/p>\nThe Middle East adversaries\u00a0traded devastating missile attacks<\/a> after Israel launched an unprecedented bombing campaign targeting Iran’s nuclear and military facilities (archived link<\/a>).<\/p>\nThe strikes left more<\/span><\/a> than 900 people dead in Iran and 28 people dead in Israel. A ceasefire announced on June 24 ended the war (archived link<\/a>).<\/p>\nA\u00a0reverse image search<\/a> of keyframes<\/a> on Google found a higher quality version of the video<\/a> uploaded on the website ViralHog (archived link<\/a>).<\/p>\n“A Shahed drone, launched by Russian forces, strikes a residential high-rise building in Kyiv, Ukraine. The video captures the exact moment of impact and explosion,” reads its caption which states the clip was filmed June 9, 2025.<\/p>\n\n![\"<span>Screenshot](\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/AyTATrefqCEGcm5WCYacgg--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTMwNTtjZj13ZWJw\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/afp_factcheck_us_713\/e540dcd21fd6dd0e01c8dd55cd34cb20\"\/)
The short video shows an explosion at night near a building complex.<\/p>\n Screenshot of the false post captured July 8, 2025, with a red X added by AFP<\/span><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n The video also surfaced on\u00a0Facebook<\/a>, Instagram<\/a> and YouTube<\/a>, and was shared in posts written in English<\/a>, Arabic<\/a> and Azerbaijani<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Middle East adversaries\u00a0traded devastating missile attacks<\/a> after Israel launched an unprecedented bombing campaign targeting Iran’s nuclear and military facilities (archived link<\/a>).<\/p>\n The strikes left more<\/span><\/a> than 900 people dead in Iran and 28 people dead in Israel. A ceasefire announced on June 24 ended the war (archived link<\/a>).<\/p>\n A\u00a0reverse image search<\/a> of keyframes<\/a> on Google found a higher quality version of the video<\/a> uploaded on the website ViralHog (archived link<\/a>).<\/p>\n “A Shahed drone, launched by Russian forces, strikes a residential high-rise building in Kyiv, Ukraine. The video captures the exact moment of impact and explosion,” reads its caption which states the clip was filmed June 9, 2025.<\/p>\n