{"id":1337826,"date":"2022-02-24T13:52:49","date_gmt":"2022-02-24T18:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1337826"},"modified":"2022-02-24T13:52:54","modified_gmt":"2022-02-24T18:52:54","slug":"fact-check-does-this-video-show-ukrainian-police-declining-to-enforce-covid-19-lockdowns-and-mandates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-does-this-video-show-ukrainian-police-declining-to-enforce-covid-19-lockdowns-and-mandates\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Does This Video Show Ukrainian Police Declining To Enforce COVID-19 Lockdowns And Mandates?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-does-this-video-show-ukrainian-police-declining-to-enforce-covid-19-lockdowns-and-mandates%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1337826&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A video <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BehindEnemyLinesNews\/videos\/649890112884147\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Facebook<\/a> purportedly shows law enforcement officers in Ukraine setting down riot shields and refusing to enforce COVID-19 restrictions.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7379174\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7379174\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Facebook\/Screenshot<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong><span>Verdict: Misleading<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The footage, taken in 2014, shows Ukrainian police officers laying down their shields after pro-Russian demonstrators raided their headquarters.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span>Fact Check:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ukraine\u2019s government is currently imposing an \u201cadaptive quarantine\u201d policy, where a region\u2019s COVID-19 plan is categorized depending on the severity of the COVID-19 situation at a local level, according to Ireland\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dfa.ie\/travel\/travel-advice\/a-z-list-of-countries\/ukraine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Department of Foreign Affairs<\/a>. This policy is set to expire in April barring possible extensions, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/foreign-travel-advice\/ukraine\/coronavirus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">U.K. government\u2019s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Facebook <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BehindEnemyLinesNews\/videos\/649890112884147\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">video<\/a> shows law enforcement personnel in riot gear dropping their riot shields in a pile on the ground before walking away. The caption identifies the officers as \u201cPolice in Odessa, Ukraine\u201d acting \u201cin defiance to enforcing draconian lockdowns and mandates towards its people.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2022\/02\/22\/fact-check-canada-vaccine-passport-phone\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Do You Need A Phone To Show Proof Of Vaccination In Canada?)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While the clip does show an incident that took place in the Ukrainian port city of Odessa, it predates the COVID-19 pandemic and its associated restrictions. Spanish-based newspaper El Pa\u00eds included a slightly longer version of the footage in a May 4, 2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/elpais.com\/internacional\/2014\/05\/04\/actualidad\/1399226773_947166.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">report<\/a> that explains the police visible in the video were preparing to engage with pro-Russia separatist protesters who had occupied a building in the port city.<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apimages.com\/metadata\/Index\/Ukraine\/66baa3a72c2c42deb887dddb4d600246\/39\/0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">included<\/a> a photo showing the pile of dropped police shields in a May 4, 2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/pro-russian-crowd-storms-police-hq-ukraine-port-201641107.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">article<\/a> about the protest. The article noted the pro-Russia protestors had attacked a police building and freed prisoners being held there.\u00a0Al-Jazeera reporter Jonah Hull <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ObpY3afGIYw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a> from Odessa at the time of the incident that it appeared as if law enforcement had \u201cactively decided to stand back and do nothing, in order to prevent\u201d additional rioting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A video shared on Facebook purportedly shows law enforcement officers in Ukraine setting down riot shields and refusing to enforce COVID-19 restrictions.Facebook\/ScreenshotVerdict: Misleading The footage, taken in 2014, shows Ukrainian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1337826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1337826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1337826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1337826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1337826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1337826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1337826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}