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In April 2022, Russian sailors were forced to evacuate Moskva, one of the Russian Navy's most important warships, after it was badly damaged in the Black Sea. Shortly after this news broke, a video started circulating on social media that supposedly showed an explosion on a Russian warship after it was hit by a Ukrainian missile. This video, however, was unrelated to the current conflict in Ukraine. This video (which can be viewed below) truly shows an explosion aboard a naval ship, but this footage is several years old. As first noted by Bellingcat's Eliot Higgins, this video was taken in 2013, and shows the KNM Trondheim, a Norwegian naval ship, being struck by a missile that was fired by the Norwegian Navy. According to Military.com, the recently decommissioned KNM Trondheim was used as target practice for Norway's new 880-pound Naval Strike Missile: We were able to determine the source of this video by performing a reverse image search. As this is a video, not a photograph, it's necessary to take a screenshot of the video before performing a reverse image search. You can read more about the process here. A video of this naval exercise can be seen below: This footage is unrelated to the current conflict in Ukraine. However, a Russian warship was truly damaged in April 2022. While the exact extent of the damage is unknown and there have been conflicting reports over the cause of the damage, there was an explosion aboard the Moskva that caused serious damage to one of Russia's most important warships. The BBC reported:
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