{"id":1490610,"date":"2022-05-24T18:44:52","date_gmt":"2022-05-24T22:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1490610"},"modified":"2022-05-24T18:45:02","modified_gmt":"2022-05-24T22:45:02","slug":"fact-check-does-this-photo-show-vladimir-putin-wearing-a-bulletproof-vest-in-may-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-does-this-photo-show-vladimir-putin-wearing-a-bulletproof-vest-in-may-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Does This Photo Show Vladimir Putin Wearing A Bulletproof Vest In May 2022?"},"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-photo-show-vladimir-putin-wearing-a-bulletproof-vest-in-may-2022%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=1490610&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><span>An image <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=1396820427466682&#038;id=100014162138061\"><span>shared on Facebook<\/span><\/a> purportedly<span>\u00a0shows a recent photo of Russian President Vladimir Putin in which he appears to be wearing a bulletproof vest under his suit.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: Misleading\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The photo is more than four years old. It is unrelated to the ongoing conflict in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A top Ukrainian military official claimed an unsuccessful assassination attempt took place against Putin shortly after Russia began its invasion of Ukraine, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/05\/23\/putin-survived-assassination-attempt-two-months-ago-official\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New York Post<\/a>. Western officials are reportedly skeptical of the claim, stating such an operation would be \u201chugely complex,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/putin-assassination-attempt-unlikely-western-officials-2022-5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Business Insider<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>An image shared on Facebook claims Putin has taken extra security precautions since the war in Ukraine began. It shows an image of Putin bending over, revealing what appears to be the outline of a bulletproof vest beneath his suit. \u201cLooks like Putin has start (sic) wearing bulletproof vest,\u201d reads the May 22 post\u2019s caption.<\/p>\n<p><span>The photo is not recent. A reverse image search revealed it was shared by the Russian news outlet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kommersant.ru\/gallery\/3375345#id1465469\">Kommersant<\/a> in August 2017 with a caption that indicates it shows Putin at <a href=\"https:\/\/whc.unesco.org\/en\/list\/754\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lake Baikal<\/a>\u00a0in Siberia with other Russian officials. It is unclear whether Putin is wearing a bulletproof vest in the photo and the article makes no mention of the subject.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span> The image was also shared on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VVP2_0\/status\/893419183479848965\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a> in 2017 with the same claim made in the Facebook post. \u201cAm I the only one who thinks that Putin has a bulletproof vest under his jacket?\u201d reads the translation of one Russian-language tweet that shared the photo. <a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2022\/03\/01\/fact-check-russia-putin-walking-video\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>(RELATED: Does This Video Show Vladimir Putin Walking Home From A Recent Press Briefing?)<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Putin has reportedly survived five assassination attempts, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/world-news\/vladimir-putin-survived-five-assassination-27049180\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mirror<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image shared on Facebook purportedly\u00a0shows a recent photo of Russian President Vladimir Putin in which he appears to be wearing a bulletproof vest under his suit.\u00a0Verdict: Misleading\u00a0 The photo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":613,"featured_media":1490627,"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-1490610","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\/1490610","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\/613"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1490610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1490627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1490610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1490610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1490610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}