A car with a Dublin registration plate has been found crushed under rubble in the war-torn city of Kharkiv in Ukraine
Eagle-eyed social media users spotted the 04-D registered blue Toyota RAV4 under what appears to be a fallen building in a video shot by New Zealand travel vlogger Nick Fisher, who has been travelling around Ukraine.
The car was spotted by eagle-eyed viewers in Fisher’s film on his Indigo Traveller YouTube channel Walking Ukraine' Destroyed Streets in War in the city of Kharkiv.
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According to a check on car history service cartell.ie, the five-door, 1.8l petrol Toyota model has had four owners since it was bought brand new in 2004 for €32,000.
The car has also been sold three times with the last time being in 2016.
However, the car hasn’t been taxed in Ireland or had an Irish NCT since 2019.
It is not known who brought the car 3,500km from Ireland to the city in eastern Ukraine, near the Russian border which would have taken more than 40 hours by road.
Taking to social media, users were amazed to see the Irish car in the midst of the destruction as the war continues.
One user said: "Imagine seeing a Dublin registered car in the middle of the Ukraine war. This is mad."
A second said: "How on earth did this Irish car get all the way over there?"
A third said: "There's something you don't see every day, a Dublin car in the middle of a war."
According to checks, the car wasn’t imported into Ireland and there is no outstanding finance on it.
It comes after last month in a segment on CNN’s The Situation Room hosted by Wolf Blitzer, the same distinctive blue car was seen in the background while the panel discussed the latest developments in the war.
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