A fire broke out at the V.V. Chernyshev Machine-Building Plant in Moscow, Russia, on May 12 this year. According to media, the plant produces engines for MiG fighter jets, and the fire led to the demise of at least three people.
Against this backdrop, a viral image showing smoke clouds rising from a building on fire is doing the rounds on social media, linking the image to the recent fire at the V V Chernyshev plant.
A Facebook user posted the viral post with a caption: This is the third major Russian fire to report on this morning. At the Chernyshev factory in Moscow, which produces engines for MiG-29 fighter jets.
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FACT CHECK
NewsMobile fact-checked the viral post, and found it to be false.
Running a Reverse Image Search of the viral picture, we found a news article titled: В Москве горит нефтеперерабатывающий завод “Газпром нефти” в Капотне (English: Oil refinery “Gazprom Neft” in Kapotnya burns in Moscow) published on November 17, 2018, in Delovoy Peterburg – a Russian media house.
The picture in the article matches with the viral image informing about a fire break-out in an oil refinery in Moscow.
Another news report on the website of newizv.ru — a Russian media house, dated November 17, 2018, shows a close-up image as well as a wide-angle image of the same building clarifying that the incident happened in an oil refinery in South-East Moscow.
Reuters, too, reported on the incident on the same day.
Therefore, we can conclusively say that the viral post, claiming to show the image of the burning V.V. Chernyshev Machine-Building Plant in Moscow, is False.
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