Ukrainian MP posts fake claim passing off old photo as child victim

Ukrainian lawmaker Lesia Vasilenko posted a photo of a sad-looking, dirt-covered boy, claiming that he is an eight-year-old named Mark, who ‘just survived’ a Russian artillery strike. The photo is nowhere close to being new and does not appear to have any relation to Ukraine. The 2013 Spanish-language edition of a book by Irish novelist Christina McKenna featured the very same picture on the cover.

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