https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2022/02/28/fact-check-video-russian-tank-hitting-car-kyiv-lacks-context/6953727001/
"Multiple news organizations, as well as an eyewitness, have confirmed the authenticity of the footage. But some details remain unclear. "
''A few hours later, Khrebet shared a separate clip of a man being rescued from the crashed car. The Intel Lab, an intelligence and imagery firm, pinpointed the location of the footage to the Obolon district in Kyiv.''
" 'Rather impossible' to know who operated vehicle, military experts say''
"Petri Mäkelä, a military blogger with expertise identifying Russian vehicles, told USA TODAY the vehicle is a Strela-10 surface-to-air missile launcher, not a tank. That model makes it difficult to know who's to blame for the collision."
"Both Ukraine and Russia have (Strela-10s) in service so it's rather impossible to identify it," he said over email. "
"Alex Plitsas, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security, agreed that the vehicle appears to be a Strela-10, which he described as a "Russian-made armored vehicle." He said in an email that both the Russian and Ukrainian militaries use the vehicle."
"In a Feb. 25 Twitter thread, Russian military expert Rob Lee, a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute’s Eurasia Program, said the vehicle shown in the video is "almost certainly Ukrainian."
"There were multiple videos of this Strela-10 driving around the Obolon area of Kyiv. It wouldn't make any sense for it to be Russian," he wrote. "If it was, you would see a large Russian tank or motorized rifle unit with it, and it certainly would not be the first vehicle you saw."
"I have no idea why it ran over that car, but people immediately jumped to conclusions that weren't supported by the limited evidence."
"Elijah J. Magnier, a veteran war-zone correspondent, tweeted that the vehicle is a Ukrainian Strela-10, noting it is unlikely Russia would occupy Kyiv with a single vehicle."
"However, that conclusion isn't the consensus. Pavel Luzin, an expert in Russian politics and defense affairs, told USA TODAY in an email that the color of the vehicle "seems to be typical for the Russian armed forces."