“Video of Taliban trying to fly the Black Hawk Helicopter”
What FACTLY found
The video is from Libya and not from Afghanistan. Libya since 2019 had a conflict between UN-recognised Government of National Accord (GNA) and a coalition of armed groups led by Qadhafi-era military defector Khalifa Haftar known as the Libyan National Army. On 04 June 2020, GNA-aligned forces were towing the Mi-35 helicopter captured at the outskirts of Tarhuna, Tripoli. A defunct Mi-35 helicopter gifted by India was seized by the Taliban recently, but the video is not related to this seizure
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 31 August 2021. FACTLY (India) looked into it and published its finding on 2 September 2021, 2 days later. Its rating was “MISLEADING”.
Where the claim appeared
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