{"id":1488734,"date":"2022-05-23T15:44:49","date_gmt":"2022-05-23T19:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1488734"},"modified":"2022-05-23T15:44:52","modified_gmt":"2022-05-23T19:44:52","slug":"fact-check-does-this-image-show-a-retired-us-navy-admiral-being-captured-in-mariupol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-does-this-image-show-a-retired-us-navy-admiral-being-captured-in-mariupol\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Does This Image Show A Retired US Navy Admiral Being Captured In Mariupol?"},"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\">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-image-show-a-retired-us-navy-admiral-being-captured-in-mariupol%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=1488734&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>An image <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/cnando\/posts\/10224569578978423\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Facebook<\/a> purportedly shows a retired U.S. admiral being held as a prisoner in Mariupol, Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: False<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>There is no evidence to suggest an American admiral has been captured in Ukraine. The image, taken in April, shows prisoners of war attending an event in a different part of the country.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Russian authorities claim 1,700 Ukrainian defenders of the Azovstal steel plant\u00a0in the besieged city of Mariupol have surrendered to Russian forces, the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/russia-ukraine-putin-kyiv-nato-4cf194da8b1870d26cbedc0a7ec69ed6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Associated Press<\/a> reports. A Facebook post claims that retired <a href=\"https:\/\/spiritofamerica.org\/about\/team\/eric-olson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">U.S. Admiral Eric Olson<\/a> is among those taken as prisoners.<\/p>\n<p>The post includes an image that shows several camouflaged men being escorted by a soldier wearing a Z patch. \u201cUS Admiral Eric Olson (Highly decorated special ops commander born in #Tacoma , Wa retired in 2011) &#038; British Lieutenant Colonel John Bailey and four NATO military instructors captured by Russian military at #Azovstal #Ukraine,\u201d reads the post\u2019s caption.<\/p>\n<div class=\"kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p>There is no evidence <a href=\"https:\/\/navyseals.com\/ns-overview\/notable-seals\/eric-t-olson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Olson<\/a> has been captured in Ukraine. A reverse image search revealed the image included in the post can be found on <a href=\"https:\/\/sputnikimages.com\/story\/list_264787293\/8165247.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sputnik Images<\/a>, a Russian photo archive website, with a <a href=\"https:\/\/sputnikimages.com\/story\/list_264787293\/8165247.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">caption<\/a> that explains it shows Ukrainian prisoners of war who were photographed in April in Luhansk, Ukraine. The caption makes no mention of Olson or Mariupol.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUkrainian prisoners of war attend an event in memory of those killed in Luhansk People\u2019s Republic as a result of shelling in 2014, in Luhansk, LPR,\u201d reads the post. Luhansk is over 280 kilometers away from Mariupol, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/dir\/Mariupol&#039;,+Donetsk+Oblast,+Ukraine\/Luhansk,+Luhansk+Oblast,+Ukraine,+91000\/@47.8302734,37.2818961,8z\/data=!3m1!4b1!4m13!4m12!1m5!1m1!1s0x40e6e6a7bee7582b:0xa5d118300a75b5ce!2m2!1d37.543367!2d47.097133!1m5!1m1!1s0x411fc564844c6285:0xf8e02e7e879e7164!2m2!1d39.307815!2d48.574041\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google Maps<\/a>. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2022\/05\/11\/fact-check-ukraine-destroys-russian-tanks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Does This Video Show Ukrainian Forces Destroying Eight Russian Tanks?)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There are no credible <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=eric+olson+John+Bailey+captured+ukraine&#038;sxsrf=ALiCzsaWSrgnvqHYzsyXjyi1DqYHzx8Lyg:1653311979092&#038;source=lnms&#038;tbm=nws&#038;sa=X&#038;ved=2ahUKEwiFwd2J2_X3AhWglIkEHfRECAgQ_AUoAXoECAEQAw&#038;biw=960&#038;bih=972&#038;dpr=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">news reports<\/a> suggesting any foreign generals have been captured in Ukraine. A Department of Defense spokesperson told Check Your Fact in an email the Facebook claim was false.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image shared on Facebook purportedly shows a retired U.S. admiral being held as a prisoner in Mariupol, Ukraine.Verdict: False There is no evidence to suggest an American admiral has<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":1488750,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1488734","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\/1488734","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\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1488734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1488750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1488734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1488734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1488734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}