People were called to ignore a fake video circulating on the internet under the name of BBC News which suggests that Ukraine was responsible for a deadly rocket attack on its civilians. The video, which uses the BBC News logo and the same red and white graphics as the broadcaster, gives the false impression that the Ukrainian armed forces are behind a rocket attack on a train station in Kramatorsk in eastern Ukraine on Friday. The BBC reports: “We know of a fake BBC News video suggesting that Ukraine was responsible for last week’s rocket attack on Kramatorsk train station. “The BBC is taking steps to remove the video. “We urge people not to share it and to check out stories on the BBC News website.” The fake video, which allegedly came from pro-Kremlin accounts, has since been broadcast on Russian state television and spread on social media. The one-minute, 27-second video shows a BBC spokesman saying the serial number of the rocket was similar to that fired by the Ukrainian military. Below the text are graphic excerpts from corpses covering the ground after the blast, along with footage of destroyed towers across Ukraine and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky walking with military personnel. Elsewhere in the video, the text refers to the Ukrainian president as “Zelenskyy”, but the BBC website writes his last name as “Zelensky”. The fake video also claims that “military experts stress” that Ukraine is using “fake news to promote its position”. A fragment of a Tochka-U rocket (Andriy Andriyenko / AP) / AP About 4,000 civilians are believed to have been in and around Kramatorsk railway station when a rocket hit Friday and killed 50 people, according to Ukrainian authorities. Photos from the scene showed corpses covered with tarpaulins on the ground and the remains of a rocket with the phrase “For children” in Russian. The Russian Defense Ministry denied that Russia was behind the attack. President Zelensky and other Ukrainian leaders have accused the Russian military of deliberately targeting a location where only civilians are concentrated.
