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No, Russia did not capture a US admiral at Ukraine's Azovstal steel plant

United States Azovstal (Organization) Department of Defense FRANCE 24 Observers Mariupol

Posts on social media claim that Russian forces captured a US admiral, Eric T. Olson, at the Azovstal steel plant in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol. The US Department of Defense confirmed to The FRANCE 24 Observers that Eric T. Olson retired in 2011 as an admiral for the US armed forces. But the claims that he was captured in Mariupol are false. We tell you more in this edition of Truth or Fake.

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