| Title: | Photo of Zelenskyy holding a jersey with a swastika was altered |
| URL: | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/oct/21/viral-image/photo-zelenskyy-holding-jersey-swastika-was-altere/ |
| Publisher: | PolitiFact |
| Date published: | October 21, 2022 |
| Description: | This photo was altered. In the original, Zelenskyy is holding a jersey that has the number 95, not a swastika. The original image was distributed by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Service in June 2021. According to a caption on Agence France-Presse’s website, it shows him “posing with a jersey of Ukraine’s national football team.” Since Russia invaded Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin has pushed the idea that the effort is one of “denazification,” a narrative historians have decried as “false and destructive.” We rate claims Zelenskyy was holding a jersey with a swastika False. |
Photo of Zelenskyy holding a jersey with a swastika was altered
This photo was altered. In the original, Zelenskyy is holding a jersey that has the number 95, not a swastika.
The original image was distributed by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Service in June 2021. According to a caption on Agence France-Presse's website, it shows him "posing with a jersey of Ukraine's national football team."
Since Russia invaded Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin has pushed the idea that the effort is one of "denazification," a narrative historians have decried as "false and destructive."
We rate claims Zelenskyy was holding a jersey with a swastika False.
