Antifake / Factcheck

07 March

Ukrainian bought child to leave the country. Shocking story from ZhS Premium fact-checked

Ukrainian border guards actually published news with the headline.

Fake appearance date: 28.02.2024
The authors of the Telegram channel ZhS Premium allegedly found evidence that in Ukraine children are literally bought and sold. The Weekly Top Fake team checked to see whether it was true.

On February 28, the Telegram channel ZhS Premium published the headline of the State Border Service of Ukraine announcement that a Ukrainian “bought” a third child for $2,000 to cross the border.

“The most disgusting thing is that one is no longer even surprised by such news. And why be surprised — in Ukraine, child trafficking has become the norm. But they still call Putin and Lukashenko kidnappers of children,” the authors of this Telegram channel said.

Ukrainian border guards actually published news with the headline. But it was about buying a fake child’s birth certificate.

“A 27-year-old passenger in a Mercedes minibus tried to go outside of Ukraine as a father of many children. He gave the border guard three birth certificates of his children along with his passport.

However, while checking the documents, inspectors found that one of the certificates contained signs of forgery. When the man realized that he had been caught cheating, he admitted that he purchased the document via the Internet for $2,000,” the Ukrainian border service reported.

In the previous program, the WTF team also debunked the fake news about child trafficking Belarus is accused of organ trafficking of Ukrainian children, Belarusian state TV reported. Is it true?

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