{"id":253491,"date":"2025-07-10T12:44:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T12:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/253491\/"},"modified":"2025-07-10T12:44:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T12:44:13","slug":"bbc-verify-live-verified-images-show-red-sea-ship-sinking-and-aftermath-of-attack-on-kyiv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/253491\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Verify Live: Verified images show Red Sea ship sinking and aftermath of attack on Kyiv"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What we know about the sinking of the Eternity Cpublished at 12:02 British Summer Time<\/p>\n<p>12:02 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-8kvzjk-Contributor etflsgg2\"><strong>Sherie Ryder<\/strong><br \/>BBC Verify journalist<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">We have been authenticating a video released by Houthi-controlled media of an attack by its fighters on the Eternity C, a Greek-operated cargo ship on Monday in the Red Sea off Yemen, which led to it sinking on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bearing in mind this was shared on a known Houthi propaganda channel, we were unable to verify the radio communications audio heard. However, the images from the footage can be authenticated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">We could see that the ship featured in the clip matches <a href=\"https:\/\/static.vesselfinder.net\/ship-photo\/9588249-636015837-206efcef0d63f2044381bb99944c5b3a\/1?v1\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">photos we\u2019ve seen of the Eternity C on the Vessel Finder , external<\/a>website from 2020.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"One of the frames from the video shows the ship sinking from the stern\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ee06f3b3-25bf-4add-8077-a2fa0d06a8b8.png.webp.webp\"  width=\"916\" height=\"403\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image caption, <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">One of the frames from the video shows the ship sinking from the stern<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The bow of Eternity C above the water\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/4e6bf603-293b-4a21-86ce-d1924b048c2c.png.webp.webp\"  width=\"1077\" height=\"435\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image caption, <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At one point the ship is almost completely submerged<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The damage to the starboard quarter matches images we\u2019ve seen on the vessel-tracking provider, Lloyd\u2019s List.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">We also carried out an additional check using Synth ID which found no evidence that the footage had been manipulated or generated using artificial intelligence. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Reverse image searches of the video clip brought up no prior copies so we know the footage is current. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What we know about the sinking of the Eternity Cpublished at 12:02 British Summer Time 12:02 BST Sherie&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-253491","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114829005152405631","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}