| Title: | Photo shows aftermath of 2018 fire in Turkey, not ‘elderly man in Ukraine’ |
| URL: | https://factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com.32674RT |
| Publisher: | AFP |
| Date published: | March 16, 2022 |
| Description: | A photo of an elderly man clutching a cat has been shared in social media posts around the world that claim he was seeking shelter from Russian shelling in Ukraine. While millions of people have fled Ukraine since the Russian invasion, the photo actually shows a man with his cat at the scene of a fire in Turkey in 2018. |
Photo shows aftermath of 2018 fire in Turkey, not ‘elderly man in Ukraine’
A photo of an elderly man clutching a cat has been shared in social media posts around the world that claim he was seeking shelter from Russian shelling in Ukraine. While millions of people have fled Ukraine since the Russian invasion, the photo actually shows a man with his cat at the scene of a fire in Turkey in 2018.
