A new road sign appearing in the Ukrainian city of Odessa has a very blunt message for its Russian invaders.
Posted on Twitter by Guardian journalist Shaun Walker, a photo of the new sign has three directions for oncoming troops.
Mr Walker, who is in Odessa, wrote: “Road sign in Odessa.
“Straight on: f**k off.
“Left: f**k off again.
“Right: f**k off to Russia.”
The journalist was then accused of posting a fake photo, to which he clarified that it was indeed real – because he took it.
Posting another photo slightly further away, he added: “Somewhat bizarre to have endless messages in my mentions telling me this is photoshopped and 'schooling' me in being able to recognise fakes.
“I took the photograph myself three hours ago.”
A quick search via Google Translate with the photo also show the humourous road sign does include the strong words for Russian troops.
The claims of the image being false come just a few days after a post on Facebook claimed to show a Ukrainian road sign being replaced with a message telling Russian troops to “go f**k yourselves”.
According to fullfact.org, the original picture was posted to Facebook by the Ukrainian government’s State Agency of Motor Roads of Ukraine, urging people there to “dismantle all road signs and hand them over to the local authorities” in an effort to disorientate Russian troops.
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However, the photo went viral, as many thought it was real, so a spokesman for the agency told PolitiFact that “ the Facebook post is legitimate, but the sign was photoshopped” to encourage people to “dismantle the signs”.
Referencing this when tweeting about Mr Walker's original image, @webofevil wrote: “For what it's worth, around the day of the invasion a site recommended that people did precisely this to their local road signs and used a photoshopped picture to illustrate it, and the ensuing arguments over *that* picture may well have added to the confusion here.”
And one other user pointed out that those calling him out for the tweet were likely Russian “bots”.
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