{"id":1409686,"date":"2022-03-30T09:45:33","date_gmt":"2022-03-30T13:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1409686"},"modified":"2022-03-30T09:45:52","modified_gmt":"2022-03-30T13:45:52","slug":"fact-check-does-this-video-show-a-young-ukrainian-boy-crossing-the-border-into-slovakia-by-himself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-does-this-video-show-a-young-ukrainian-boy-crossing-the-border-into-slovakia-by-himself\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Does This Video Show A Young Ukrainian Boy Crossing The Border Into Slovakia By Himself?"},"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\">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-video-show-a-young-ukrainian-boy-crossing-the-border-into-slovakia-by-himself%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=1409686&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><\/div>\n<p>A video <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/7RXo2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Facebook<\/a> purportedly shows a young Ukrainian boy crossing the border into Slovakia by himself.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: False<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The boy was not alone, nor was he travelling into Slovakia. The Polish Border Guard confirmed the boy was travelling with his family to Poland.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>More than 4 million refugees have fled Ukraine since Russia\u2019s invasion on Feb. 24, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/data2.unhcr.org\/en\/situations\/ukraine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees<\/a> (UNHCR). Poland has accepted the vast majority of these refugees, taking in over 2.3 million people, the UNHCR reports.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/7RXo2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">video<\/a> shared on Facebook, which has garnered over 35,000 views, appears to show a young boy walking alone and crying. \u201cParents of this 11 year old boy sent him alone from Ukraine to Slovakia due to the war,\u201d the video\u2019s caption claims. \u201cHe had a phone number on his relatives written on his hand by pen, he made it safely. Eurolanche forces and volunteers came to his aide.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The boy in the video was not abandoned by his family, nor was he travelling to Slovakia, however. The CNN news chyron visible in the video clearly states, \u201cUkrainian Refugees Walking Across Border Into Poland.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Twitter account of the Polish Border Guard addressed the video in a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Straz_Graniczna\/status\/1501244206039326727\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 8 tweet<\/a>, explaining the boy was crossing over into Poland with his family. The tweet includes what appears to be a screen grab of security footage showing the boy with another child and two adults.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"pl\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/StopFakeNews?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#StopFakeNews<\/a><br \/>Informujemy,\u017ce wbrew niestety rozpowszechnianym w mediach informacjom,4-letni Walerij z\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6nie przekroczy\u0142 granicy sam,by\u0142 razem ze swoj\u0105 rodzin\u0105. Na przej\u015bciu granicznym <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PSGMedyka?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PSGMedyka<\/a> dosta\u0142 od funkcjonariuszy s\u0142odkie upominki.<br \/>On i jego rodzina s\u0105 bezpieczni w Polsce\ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddf1 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7vkq6LBU2n\">pic.twitter.com\/7vkq6LBU2n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Stra\u017c Graniczna (@Straz_Graniczna) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Straz_Graniczna\/status\/1501244206039326727?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 8, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201c#StopFakeNews,\u201d reads a translated version of the Polish tweet. \u201cWe would like to inform you that, contrary to the unfortunately disseminated information in the media, 4-year-old Valerij z did not cross the border alone, he was with his family. At the border crossing #PSGMedyka he received sweet gifts from the officers. He and his family are safe in Poland.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The same day, Turkish news outlet TRT World <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/trtworld\/status\/1501270022659915777?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1501270022659915777%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&#038;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.usatoday.com%2Fstory%2Fnews%2Ffactcheck%2F2022%2F03%2F29%2Ffact-check-ukrainian-boy-crossed-border-his-family-not-alone%2F7197875001%2F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tweeted<\/a> the video of the young boy with the caption, \u201cA Ukrainian boy is seen crying as he walks behind his mother at the border crossing to Medyka, Poland.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2022\/03\/02\/fact-check-russia-ukraine-war-injured-child\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Does This Image Show A Child Who Was Injured During The Russian Invasion Of Ukraine?)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Mar. 5, an 11-year-old Ukrainian boy travelled over 600 miles by himself to Slovakia, according to a translated Facebook <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/policiaslovakia\/posts\/5378957235467788\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">post<\/a> shared by Slovakia\u2019s Interior Ministry. There is no indication this boy is the same one visible in the Facebook video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A video shared on Facebook purportedly shows a young Ukrainian boy crossing the border into Slovakia by himself.Verdict: False The boy was not alone, nor was he travelling into Slovakia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"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-1409686","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\/1409686","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\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1409686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1409686\/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=1409686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1409686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1409686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}