While a train did collapse in western Russia on April 8, footage being widely shared on X is from a 2018 incident.
The aftermatch of a bridge collapse that killed one and injured five in Vyazma , a city in Smolensk region, Russia , on April 8, 2024. over railway tracks in the town of Vyazma , western Russia , killing one person and injuring five. Local media speculated the bridge collapse d due to old age, although authorities are investigating the cause of the incident.
The Kyiv Post, Ukraine’s oldest English-language newspaper, included a screen capture of that footage in its story on the incident. Olexander Scherba, a Ukrainian diplomat and the country’s former ambassador to Austria, shared that footage on X, with the following comment:However, the footage accompanying Scherba’s post is misleading.the 2018 collapse of a freeway bridge over the Trans-Siberian Railway in the city of Svobodny, near Russia’s border with China — the opposite side of the country from Vyazma.
The hashtag shared by Scherba, “#RussiaIsCollapsing,” and comments by other pro-Ukraine accounts, reflects a narrative being shared on X and other social media platforms.
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