Parties at Kyiv nightclubs amid the war? Watch out for these misleading images

While posts online suggest that these videos of nightclub parties were taken in Kyiv, Ukraine amidst the war, they were actually taken prior to the conflict. © Observers

A video compilation that has been circulating since May 3 claims to show that – despite the war – the party is in full swing in Kyiv's nightclubs, taking advantage of foreign donations to Ukraine's war effort. Most of these images date from before the war, however, and some of the establishments where they were filmed have been closed since the conflict began in February 2022.

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