On Twitter, a fake was spread to the English-speaking audience that the video of the CNN channel about the Russian airstrike on fuel warehouses in Lviv on March 26, 2022, is an alleged production, saying that the footage was taken during a fire in Edmonton, Canada. In particular, in these posts, it was noted that firefighters have Edmonton written on their uniforms. It is not the first time that CNN has been criticized for allegedly staging stories about the war in Ukraine; in particular, earlier Russian propaganda accused the channel of "a production about Russian soldiers who shoot two civilian men in the Kyiv region."

In fact, the Russian Ministry of Defense publicly admitted that it launched a missile attack on Lviv that day. This fact alone refutes the report about CNN's alleged delivery of an attack on fuel warehouses in Lviv. However, this fake was analyzed in detail by the fact-checkers of the Poynter project, who studied the geolocation on the CNN video and found Lviv streets from the video on Google Maps. They also confirmed that the Ukrainian rescuers' uniforms had Edmonton written on them. "The real story is that these jackets were given to Ukrainian firefighters by Edmonton firefighters - the non-profit organization Firefighter Aid Ukraine. Edmonton's fire chief also posted a message confirming that the jacket was donated from their stock," the fact-checkers said.