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| Title: | Ukrainian island defenders were captured by Russia, not killed |
| URL: | https://factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com.324N64Y |
| Publisher: | AFP |
| Date published: | March 8, 2022 |
| Description: | Social media posts, online articles and Ukraine’s president hailed 13 of the country’s border guards as heroes, saying they were killed on a small Black Sea island after rejecting a Russian warship’s surrender demand. But Kyiv’s navy later admitted the troops were captive rather than dead, and Moscow said dozens had surrendered. |
