2022-12-29 Ukrainian MP posts fake claim passing off old photo as child

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.