A photograph captioned as showing seven Russian soldiers captured by Ukrainians near the village of Neskuchne in the Donetsk region in 2023 in fact dates from least September 2022, when it was released by the Ukrainian military. A June 11, 2023 tweet with nearly 9,000 “likes” shared the photo showing seven captive soldiers sitting on the ground while another soldier stands over them with the caption: “7 Russian soldiers were captured by Ukrainians near the village of Neskuchne, #Donetsk region” (here). Ukrainian news outlets (here) , (here) , (here) also posted the photograph on Sept. 4, 2022, identifying it as showing Russian soldiers captured in the village of Visokopillya, in Ukraine’s Kherson region, or just as in the Kherson region (t.me/Tsaplienko/14683). The miscaptioned photo resurfaced online following news that the Ukrainian village of Neskuchne was liberated on June 13, 2023, after Russian troops were pushed out (here). The photograph showing captured soldiers in Ukraine dates from September 2022, and does not show a scene in Neskuchne in 2023.

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