Multiple social media users – many of them pro-Russian accounts – shared a photo montage of a teenage boy carrying portraits at multiple funerals, falsely claiming he’d buried "eight fathers" and that it was proof of Ukrainian ‘wartime staging’ to rack up sympathy from Western media. In reality, the photos have been spliced together without context, as the teen is a volunteer at funerals in his village for slain soldiers, a role he considers his ‘duty’. Vedika Bahl explains in Truth or Fake.
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