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to Reddit’s r/interestingasfuck subreddit with the title, “Russian air defense system missile shoots itself in Luhansk region.” According to the post, the video, which was said to have been shot at night in Ukraine, showed a Russian missile following a “boomerang” pattern due to a malfunction, ending with it striking and blowing up in the same location where it was launched.
One popular tabloid website published the headline, “Return to sender! Russian surface-to-air missile does a U-TURN and smashes into the troops who fired it in spectacular malfunction.” Another headline said, “Russian Air Defense System Suffers Epic Malfunction, Video Shows.” However, the articles underneath these two headlines said that details about the videos were either “unverified” or “unclear.
In fact, within the article accompanied by the headline that said the missile “smashed into the troops who fired it,” it was also stated that “there were no reports on casualties suffered by Russian and separatist forces in the mishap.”
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