Were Russian nuclear weapons captured on video moving in the Russian town Vyborg very close to the border of Finland hours after Finland joined NATO? No, that's not true: precise matches of the images show the video was shot in Kolchugino, near Moscow, a thousand kilometers away from Vyborg.
The video (archived here) circulated on social media and was posted on TikTok where it was published by @oroszhirek on 07.04.2023 with the following title (translated into English by Lead Stories) on the video:
Hours after Finland joined NATO strategic nuclear weapons appeared in Vyborg, near the border of Finland.
This is what the post looked like on TikTok at the time of writing:
(Source: TikTok screenshot taken on Tue Apr 18 15:31:09 2023 UTC)
(Source: TikTok.com screenshot taken Tue Apr 22, 2023)
Lead Stories has replicated the geolocation efforts of anti-propaganda geolocation Twitter accounts, which documented the real location.
The coordinates are 56.309722° 39.378333°, the video was shot where Ulitsa Podeby and Ulitsa Mira meet in Kolchugino, northeast of Moscow and 1,023 kilometers from the Finnish border.
(Source: TikTok.com screenshot taken Tue Apr 18, 2023)
