A widely watched Tik Tok video claims to show a Russian Kinzhal missile hitting a Ukrainian arms depot. But it's fake. The video was created by a VFX artist and has been miscaptioned. Russia does claim to have destroyed an arms depot in this way though.
What is a Kinzhal missile?to have destroyed an underground arms depot in western Ukraine using a Kinzhal missile in March 2022, which would have been the first known use of the weapon in this war. The video on YouTube predates this attack.
According to the BBC, Kinzhal missiles can fly five times the speed of sound and could potentially carry a nuclear warhead, though the one used to attack the Ukrainian arms depot did not.This article is part of our work fact checking potentially false pictures, videos and stories on Facebook. You can read more about this—and find out how to report Facebook content—