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Posts shared online claim to show members of a Russian military choir being arrested for singing anti-war songs. Although Russian President Vladimir Putin has indeed cracked down on people spreading “false information” about the war in Ukraine, leading to many people’s arrests, this video is not an example of that. In fact, it shows an incident from 2015 when the choir performed a song from a James Bond film.
The video shows a group of five men in Russian military uniforms singing in a shopping centre. Within seconds, at least five hooded men dressed in black, part of the SOBR, a unit of the Russian National Guard, violently arrest the singers and take them out of the mall as a crowd looks on.
“A military band in Russia wanted to sing the song ‘Yes-yes-yes to the sunny world, no-no-no to a nuclear explosion’,” reads the caption, in Russian, of the video published on March 12 on Twitter. The video garnered more than 14,000 views. The caption makes reference to the Soviet song “It’s not too late” by Iosif Kobzon.
The same video was viewed more than 10,000 on this post in Russian the same day.
Военный оркестр в России хотел спеть песню «Солнечному миру да-да-да, ядерному взрыву нет-нет-нет». pic.twitter.com/29ibRfHbo3
— Энергия на шару (@PowerNaShary) March 12, 2022
The video was also shared on Facebook, in English on March 12 and in French on March 13.
However, a search with the keywords “Russian choir” and “arrest” brings up the source of the video, which dates back to 2015.
The video shows the military choir…
Source : france24
