Photos of a woman having gory makeup applied to simulate war wounds do not prove that the war in Ukraine is fake. At least one of the photos was posted by a combat medic in Ukraine who said they were from a 2016 training session.
that showed three images of bloody makeup being applied to a woman, and a fourth of a wounded woman lying in the street being tended to by soldiers. It led with the words,"Fake war Ukraine."
"There’s a war going on. Why would you have to take fake combatant photos?" the man in the video asked. The images are not being used to stage a battlefield in Ukraine, however. They are from 2016, and the woman who shared them initially said they are from combat medic training.from Janne Ahlberg, an independent fact-checker in Finland who runs HoaxEye, a website that identifies fake pictures.
Ahlberg tracked the photos to an Instagram user and said they were from a tactical combat casualty care training session in 2016.
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