Is it true that a poster appeared in the UK, explaining the problems with heating the need to help Ukrainians?

In August 2022, a picture spread on social networks, taken, as claimed, on the street of one of the British cities. “It will be cold in winter because they need it,” the inscription reads on a yellow-blue background. We checked the reliability of this image.

On August 24, a photo with a poster that says You’ll Be Cold in the Winter Becay they Need It More has parted through Telegram channels. “This poster in Britain tells us that there is also enough demented, since no one removed this poster and did not break. But if nevertheless they photographed and laid it on the network, then, then, someone has already begun to suspect something that it was unclean with Ukraine, ”- wrote Anonymous channel "?? Open Ukraine | Open Ukraine ”(182,000 subscribers at the time of writing this analysis). Channel "Vladlen Tatarsky" (386 000) calls And the specific place where the picture was taken-Sautend-ON-SI in the southeast of Great Britain, not far from London. The photo was posted in other social networks: ""VKontakte", Facebook And Twitter.

We checked the picture with the help of services that allow you to evaluate whether the image was subjected to photo montage. The results of the analysis of the error level (Error Analysis LEVEL, ELA; More about it we They wrote In one of the previous analysis), they indicate that the photograph was edited and initially there was no poster in the colors of the Ukrainian flag on it. This is confirmed by services Fotoforensics And Invid & Weverify. An analysis of the image carried out using the method was also led to similar conclusions JPEG GHOSTS.

Our colleagues from Reuters succeeded Find the original photograph that was subjected to installation. She placed On the website of the British company KMS Media, the picture captures posters advertising the performances of musicians. “Posters in the center of Manchester,” says the signature for the image. To the city of Sautend-ON-SC, as the authors of viral publications in social networks claimed, it has nothing to do.

Great Britain, unlike many other European countries, is poorly dependent on Russian fuel. Last year, 77% of natural gas imports and 50% of raw oil imports into the United Kingdom I had to In Norway, Russia was in fourth place in both indicators, but was the leader in the supply of processed oil (24.1%). By June of this year, London, judging by official statistics, is completely Refused From the purchase of fuel from Russia.

Nevertheless, the supply of Russian gas to Europe in recent months has been interrupted, which is why the price of blue fuel remains very high. At the end of the year, gas price, like predicts The management of national statistics will increase in the UK almost double, and about one and a half times for electricity. The forecasts for the next year are also disappointing - the gas account can already grow two more and a half times in the spring. Six months ago, the British government began to provide various measures to support their own population and discuss new benefits, but so far they do not give a noticeable result.

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