According to media reports, President Vladimir Putin has postponed a landmark military parade to mark the 75th anniversary of Soviet victory in World War II, as Russia struggles to contain the rapid spread of the coronavirus. The "risks associated with the epidemic, whose peak has not passed yet, are extremely high," Putin has reportedly said. "This does not give me the right to begin preparations for the parade and other mass events now."

This announcement by the Russian president brings under sharper focus a fake news doing the rounds in social media recently. It was, in fact, Putin's address to the Russian troops on the occasion of the 71st Victory Day Parade in 2016. But the video clip portrayed as if he was speaking to the troops in the aftermath of the coronavirus outbreak. Who was behind the text of misleading translation into English? We don't know as yet.