Explosion Misidentified: Ukrainian Footage Wrongly Circulated as Iran-Israel Missile Strike
Kyiv, Ukraine — A video recently circulated online has been misrepresented as footage from the ongoing military conflict between Iran and Israel, sparking misinformation among social media users. The clip, which depicts a nighttime explosion in a residential area, was misleadingly captioned to suggest it showed an Iranian missile striking an Israeli city. The deceptive narrative emerged in a TikTok post dated June 28, 2025, and has since spread across various platforms including Facebook, Instagram, …