A clip of a Russian television show segment shared on social media websites predates the February 2022 war in Ukraine. The video clip, from the program “60 Minutes”, initially aired in early December 2021, not March 2022, as suggested by some social media users, and shows presenters reacting to graphics produced by German and British newspapers.
“Experts at a Russian state channel are now discussing how to best invade north-eastern Poland, all 3 Baltic states, and the Swedish island of Gotland, which is located at a strategic place in the Baltic Sea,” reads a post ( here ).
Similar posts of the same video clip can be seen ( here ), in a Facebook post with over 16K views, and ( here ).
The video clip from 60 Minutes ( 60-minut.su/ ) is from the Dec. 6, 2021 episode, and can be viewed around 0:42 minutes into the show ( here , here ) (see screenshot comparison, imgur.com/a/iT2dXqm). The presenters are responding with skepticism to maps published by German newspaper Bild on Dec. 3, 2021 ( here ) and UK newspaper The Times on Sep. 8, 2018 ( here ).
By mid-December 2021, Russia had already amassed troops on the border with Ukraine ( here ).
VERDICT
Miscaptioned. A clip from the Russian state-run media show “60 minutes” is from December 2021, not March 2022, as some social media users suggested.
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