Photo of the Ukrainian Tank During the Iraq Invasion Has Been Digitally Altered
The Claim
The image depicts a Ukrainian tank during the invasion of Iraq.
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Misbar’s Analysis
Misbar looked into the circulatung claim and discovered it to be false.
The image was digitally altered to include the Ukrainian flag, which was not visible in the original photo.
Using Google Image Reverse Search, our team discovered that the original image was posted to news websites in 2013 and was taken during Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in 1990.
Description: The original image does not depict any Ukrainian flag.
Other pictures taken from different angles were uploaded to Images Stores. The pictures show American soldiers deployed in Kuwait during the Persian Gulf War in front of Saddam Hussein’s mural in 1990 during the expelling of Iraq from Kuwait.
Description: The picture shows U.S. troops in Kuwait.
The Allied forces, led by the United States of America, had launched a military operation to expel the Iraqi forces from Kuwait in 1990. The allied coalition was made up of 39 countries, but Ukraine was not among these countries.
