The Russian embassy in Iran has rejected as fake videos published by IRGC-affiliated Tasnim news showing Russian fighter jets in the skies over Ukrainian.

The twitter account of the embassy published a post on Thursday, stating that the videos published by Tasnim with title “Massive presence of the Russian fighter aircrafts and bombers in the Ukrainian sky” is fake and a part of anti-Russian propaganda.

The embassy said that the video is about an aerial parade in Moscow on the occasion of the Victory Day for the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945) and sound is a montage.

It called on the news agency to publish proven information from reliable sources in the future.

Tasnim removed the item from its website and published some other videos showing the explosions and sirens heard in Ukraine.

Tasnim is a website that routinely spreads the propaganda of the Islamic Republic and the IRGC. As the Russian invasion of Ukraine began on Thursday it echoed the official line blaming NATO and US “provocations” for the crisis in Ukraine. The IRGC-linked website apparently published the video to promote pro-Russia propaganda but inadvertently annoyed the Russian embassy.

Earlier in the day, Iran once again reiterated support for Russia in the Ukraine conflict, saying the crisis is rooted in NATO's provocations.