What rumours are circulating in the Netherlands about the war in Ukraine? And what’s wrong?

We looks at this on a weekly basis with the help of reliable international fact-checkers.

This time we look at images that are labeled as fake without evidence.

Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, fake fact checks have been circulating worldwide.

These are messages that pretend that there is evidence that a claim is not correct, when that evidence is not there at all.

We also saw examples of this in the Netherlands.

Fragment of Nieuwsuur with Zelensky is not old
On March 13, Nieuwsuur broadcast a clip in which Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visits wounded soldiers.

According to a widely shared Dutch Twitter message, the images are much older than claimed in Nieuwsuur.

According to the twitterer, this proves that Zelensky is a notorious liar. FVD leader Thierry Baudet also shared this message.

But why would this video be old? According to the Twitter post, a woman in the video was killed on February 24.

The woman in the video is said to be military doctor Inna Derusova. According to various sources, Derusova did indeed die on February 24.

Only the woman in the video is not Inna Derusova, but the Ukrainian commander Tetiana Ostashchenko.

This was the conclusion of several fact-checkers from PolitiFact, Reuters and DPA Factchecking, among others.

Ostashchenko’s name is also on her uniform.

Moreover, photos of Ostashchenko that were posted before the Russian invasion of Ukraine show that she is the woman who was in Nieuwsuur.

On March 9, a maternity hospital in the port city of Mariupol was bombed.

Photojournalists Evgeniy Maloletka and Mstyslav Chernov photographed the havoc after the

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