{"id":1506930,"date":"2022-06-07T16:49:39","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T20:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1506930"},"modified":"2022-06-07T16:49:47","modified_gmt":"2022-06-07T20:49:47","slug":"fact-check-does-this-image-show-ukrainian-soldiers-mistakenly-burning-a-dutch-flag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-does-this-image-show-ukrainian-soldiers-mistakenly-burning-a-dutch-flag\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Does This Image Show Ukrainian Soldiers Mistakenly Burning A Dutch Flag?"},"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\">26<\/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-ukrainian-soldiers-mistakenly-burning-a-dutch-flag%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=1506930&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\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo\/?fbid=10228422165320855&#038;set=a.10200825612024270\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo\/?fbid%3D10228422165320855%26set%3Da.10200825612024270&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1654630488199000&#038;usg=AOvVaw2WE5OwYoPabjkk4uuXFSmW\">shared on Facebook<\/a> purportedly shows Ukrainian soldiers burning a Dutch flag they mistook for a Russian flag.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: Misleading<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The image is from a 2016 video that allegedly shows soldiers from the Ukrainian Azov Regiment threatening Dutch citizens over a referendum. The Azov Regiment denied the video was created by them.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Facebook image features a screen grab of a May 22 tweet that purportedly shows Ukrainian soldiers in black ski masks burning a Dutch flag after they mistook it for a Russian flag. \u201cUkraine idiots have decided to burn a Russian flag and instead burned a flag of the Netherlands,\u201d the post\u2019s caption reads.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"nl\">Russian flag \u2014> \ud83c\uddf7\ud83c\uddfa<\/p>\n<p>Dutch flag \u2014> \ud83c\uddf3\ud83c\uddf1 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/77nbBLwswp\">pic.twitter.com\/77nbBLwswp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Gonzalo Lira (@GonzaloLira1968) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GonzaloLira1968\/status\/1528439529295814661?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 22, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>While the image does show Ukrainian soldiers burning a Dutch flag, it predates the current Russian invasion and was not done by accident. A reverse image search found the image originated from a 2016 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=c5YJGKs3AUo&#038;t=2s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> video titled, \u201cAppeal of AZOV fighters to the Netherlands regarding the referendum on the Ukraine-EU Association.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2022\/03\/17\/fact-check-ukraine-conflict-body-bags-smoking\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Does This Video Show A Ukrainian Person Smoking A Cigarette In Body Bag?)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>The video\u2019s title appears to allude to a 2016 referendum in which voters in the Netherlands rejected a European Union partnership deal to remove trade barriers with Ukraine, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-35976086\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BBC News<\/a>. The video allegedly shows Azov fighters threatening Dutch citizens over the referendum and ends in the armed men burning the Dutch flag. The Azov Regiment is a unit in Ukraine\u2019s National Guard with ties to the far-right, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/last-defenders-mariupol-what-is-ukraines-azov-regiment-2022-05-17\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Reuters<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for the regiment denied the men in the video were from Azov. \u201cAt first glance it is immediately clear that these could not be Azov fighters, they have no insignia, the uniforms and boots are not what our fighters wear,\u201d Andriy Diachenko, the deputy commander of the Azov Regiment at the time, said in a video featured on Ukrainian fact-checking website <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stopfake.org\/en\/fake-azov-threatens-to-destroy-dutch-citizens-if-they-reject-association-deal-with-ukraine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.stopfake.org\/en\/fake-azov-threatens-to-destroy-dutch-citizens-if-they-reject-association-deal-with-ukraine\/&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1654650125597000&#038;usg=AOvVaw04vgVmHx2bIz8foAhIC8gJ\">Stop Fake<\/a> in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, the video dates from at least 2016, more than five years before the Russian invasion of Ukraine. It also appears to show people knowingly burning the Dutch flag.<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time the Azov Regiment has been the subject of misinformation. Check Your Fact recently <a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2022\/03\/28\/fact-check-neo-nazi-kyiv-police-ukraine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">debunked<\/a> a viral post that claimed a member of the group, Artem Bonov, was the deputy commander of the Kyiv police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image\u00a0shared on Facebook purportedly shows Ukrainian soldiers burning a Dutch flag they mistook for a Russian flag.Verdict: MisleadingThe image is from a 2016 video that allegedly shows soldiers from<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":2315279,"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-1506930","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\/1506930","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=1506930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506930\/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=1506930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1506930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1506930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}