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| Title: | Is This Image of a Mass Grave from the War in Ukraine? |
| URL: | https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ukraine-mass-grave/ |
| Publisher: | Snopes |
| Date published: | March 14, 2023 |
| Description: | [T]his picture predates the most recent Ukraine-Russia conflict by well over a decade, and depicts a mass burial site created during the First Chechnyan War. Several versions of the picture were published prior to the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, with the earliest example identified by Snopes dating back to at least 2006. The photograph appears to have been taken by Georgian photojournalist Shakh Aivazov, who worked for The Associated Press during several Russian wars. It is included in a gallery of the Georgian Museum of Photography attributed to him and labeled “Chechnya, 1996.” These pictures appear to match video and other photographs of a graveyard on the outskirts of the Chechnyan capital of Grozny during the first Chechnyan war. |
