On April 8, Voice of America reporter Fatima Tlis shared a video online claiming to show “Russian tanks passing into Ukraine” in the Rostov Oblast. She did not name the location of the video, but made it clear that the village was near the Russia-Ukraine border and it was recently filmed. This video showed a number of Russian BMP-3s, a Soviet-era infantry fighting vehicle (IFV), parked along a dirt path.

(Source: Twitter / fatimatlis)

Soon after tweeting out this video, Tlis sent out the location: the village of Petrovka, near the border.

(Source: Twitter / fatimatlis)

The video was first geolocated by Twitter user @obretix to a Petrovka village in the Rostov Oblast, verifying the information from Tlis.

(Source: Twitter / Obretix)

By matching up the roofs visible in the video and on satellite imagery, we verified the geolocation, which placed the video at this village, facing south.

Sources: Twitter / fatimatlis (top, bottom-right), Google Earth (bottom-left).

Even though the original tweet claimed the video showed “tanks passing into #Ukraine”, this is far from the truth — the video was taken almost 40 kilometers from the Ukrainian border.