{"id":1355511,"date":"2022-03-02T16:42:01","date_gmt":"2022-03-02T21:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1355511"},"modified":"2022-03-02T16:42:08","modified_gmt":"2022-03-02T21:42:08","slug":"fact-check-does-this-image-show-a-child-who-was-injured-during-the-russian-invasion-of-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-does-this-image-show-a-child-who-was-injured-during-the-russian-invasion-of-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Does This Image Show A Child Who Was Injured During The Russian Invasion Of Ukraine?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/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-image-show-a-child-who-was-injured-during-the-russian-invasion-of-ukraine%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=1355511&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/GettyImages-1238828127-scaled-e1646066569792.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>An image <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/E0a0i\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Facebook<\/a> claims to show a child who was injured during the Russian invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: False<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The photo shows a child who was injured in Syria in 2018. It is not related to the current crisis in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span>Fact Check:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kharkiv, Ukraine, the second-largest city in the country, was hit with a series of Russian missiles and bombs yesterday that killed at least 10 and injured dozens more, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-60567162\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BBC<\/a>. Ukrainian officials claim more than 2,000 civilians have been killed as a result of the Russian invasion so far, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/europe\/live-news\/ukraine-russia-putin-news-03-02-22\/h_0b4e5dae06f9a7948b4c6d22695849be\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CNN<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>One image shared on Facebook shows a photo of a bloodied child who was allegedly injured during the conflict in Ukraine. \u201cOne of the most heartbreaking images from the Russia\/Ukraine war,\u201d reads the post\u2019s caption. \u201cPutin must end this for humanity\u2019s sake.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2022\/02\/27\/fact-check-bomb-exploding-ukraine-headquarters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><b>(RELATED: Does This Video Show The \u2018Ukrainian Headquarters\u2019 Exploding?)<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p>However, the image predates the invasion of Ukraine by several years. A reverse image search reveals the same image can be found in a Jan. 4, 2018 NBC News article titled \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/slideshow\/children-among-injured-besieged-damascus-suburb-n834526\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Children among the injured in besieged Damascus suburb<\/a>.\u201d The article describes how 20 people were killed and dozens others were injured when suspected Russian jets bombed a suburb of Damascus, Syria. The child pictured is identified as a girl who was injured in the bombing.<\/p>\n<p>The photo is credited to European PressPhoto Agency (EPA) photojournalist <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/badramamet?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mohammed Badra<\/a>. The original image can be found on the <a href=\"https:\/\/webgate.epa.eu\/?16634349628007773501&#038;MEDIANUMBER=53985947\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">EPA website<\/a> with a caption that reads, \u201cA young girl is treated at a hospital after a bombing in Mesraba, Eastern al-Ghouta, Syria, 03 January 2018.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Several images and videos have been falsely linked to the current situation in Ukraine. Check Your Fact previously <a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2022\/02\/28\/fact-check-ukraine-first-lady-military-attire\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">debunked<\/a> an image that claimed to show the Ukrainian first lady in military attire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image shared on Facebook claims to show a child who was injured during the Russian invasion of Ukraine.Verdict: False The photo shows a child who was injured in Syria<\/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-1355511","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\/1355511","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=1355511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355511\/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=1355511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1355511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1355511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}