Posted on 03/18/2022 2:33:40 PM PDT by Ciaphas Cain
In the last few hours, a photo of a Ukrainian girl sitting on a window with a lollipop in her mouth and a rifle in her hand has gone viral. In her hair she wears a blue and yellow ribbon, colors of the Ukrainian flag. She looks outside, as if she is watching. She was even shared on Twitter by the former president of the European Council, Donald Tusk.
The picture was taken by the girl’s own father, the Kiev photographer Oleksii Kyrychenko and published on their Facebook and Instagram accounts with the title “Young girl with candy”, “girl with a candy”.
(Excerpt) Read more at zyri.net ...
Looks like it to me.
“Although it was a staging, and for now there are no reports of children fighting, the image is not far from the reality of what is happening in Ukraine for the Russian invasion.”
Ha!!! People are SOOOooo gullible.
“Fake, but true!”
Lol. Idiots.
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Ah....more of Zelensky’s “civilian casualites”
Yes a pump and probably aout forty inches from butt to muzzle. That makes her more than five feet three tall, too. But that shotgun is a bit too big for her length of pul and shucki9ng the shells.
Oh shutup you hysterical hissy fit thowing drama queen.
Surprised your prison colony wardens allowed you to post. Are you trying to boost your Australian social credit score by posting that politicaly correct noise?
Russian girl taken in Russia (Novosibirsk)
The picture is from March 2020. The gun is fake.
“With this fake weapon, I managed to sit in a cafe and, as you can see, and take a ride in transport. None of the passers-by or the guards asked me any questions,” she said.
“I live in Russia, not in Ukraine,” she added.
https://apnews.com/article/fact-checking-105729439512
It wasn’t taken by a journalist, and it’s a Russian girl in Russia (Siberia). The gun is fake. The pic was taken in 2020.
No, I didn’t bother; but I can imagine.
You approve of using children as war propaganda?
Idiots, good way to get your little girl’s head blown off. Tragic.
What kind of a garbage father essentially puts his daughter out as a target? And she’s actually winning sympathy? What the hell has happened to men’s minds?
Whoops! I got my facts wrong. That’s from a different pic! Sorry everyone
No kidding...lol
Interesting article about the roles that very young people - some as young as 10 - played in our own revolution:
That “fact check” is referring to a different photo. Not this one.
How cool…and, cute. Great story and memory.
From your link:
CLAIM: A photo of a girl on a bus with a rifle shows “life in Ukraine, now.”
AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. The photo shows a Russian social media influencer, Ekaterina Gladkikh, holding a fake gun after a photo shoot. The photo was taken in March 2020, well before tensions began escalating between Russia and Ukraine in recent weeks.
This isn’t even the same girl. Come on.
I’m not the slightest bit surprised.
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