No, this woman driving an armored vehicle isn’t Ukrainian. She’s Russian and the clip is from 2021

A popular TikTok video claims to show a Ukrainian woman teaching people how to drive an abandoned Russian armored personnel carrier amid the war.

"Ukrainian Tik Toker nastyatyman posted a video on how to drive an abandoned Russian APC,"  a Feb. 28 Facebook post that features the video says in its caption.

This isn’t what the clip shows. The TikTok is over a year old, from February 2021, and was posted by a Russian woman named Anastasia Tuman.

The post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.)

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Tuman, who goes by the first name "Nastya," is a popular auto-blogger who was born in Ukraine while her father was on business there, but grew up in the Volgodonsk, Rostov region of Russia. She lives in Moscow with her husband, according to an August 2020 article.

The Facebook video is a compilation of several clips she shared on her TikTok page on Feb. 16, 2021.  

Tuman speaks Russian throughout the videos and excitedly describes the vehicle, saying it has 8-wheel drive, a seating shooter and a hatch for the driver-mechanic. She also discusses how to start it, instructing viewers on how to turn it on and shift into gear.

The clip was made by a Russian woman and is from February 2021. It is unrelated to the current conflict in Ukraine. We rate posts claiming otherwise False.