Is it true that the crying Russian tourist from the viral video “I don’t want to leave Crimea” left the Crimea due to explosions?

The phrase of the Russian tourist “I don’t want to leave the Crimea” dispersed over the network, where a woman cries due to interrupted vacation in Crimea. According to the version common on the Internet, the family left the resort after explosions in Crimea on August 9. We checked if it was true.

In early August, the video with the crying woman dispersed along social networks, became a hit Tiktok And YouTube. The phrase has become popular meme And even appeared on souvenir products. According to the version common on the network, the Russian family was forced to leave Crimea after the explosions on the peninsula on August 9. Comedian and actor Yuri the Great withdrew Parody In the video, in which he is indignant on behalf of the Russian tourist: "Well, we will bomb Ukraine from the Crimea, but why bomb in response?" Ukrainian media UNIAN in its Report The popular video clip showed about explosions in the Crimea and commented: "Tourists did not subscribe to such extreme, so many began to leave the peninsula." "Reviewer" wrote: "The Russian woman arranged a tantrum because of the explosions in the Crimea and complained that she did not want to leave." On Twitter, the version that the explosions caused the interrupted vacation also spread. One of the users wrote: “The Russian woman does not want to leave the Ukrainian peninsula occupied by Russia after Novofyodovka (a village in Crimea. - Approx. Ed.)”.

On August 9, a series of powerful explosions thundered in Crimea. By statement The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the reason was the detonation of aviation ammunition at the Saki military airfield near the village of Novofeodovka. By words Eyewitnesses, the explosive wave reached the resorts of Yevpatoria, located 15–20 km from the place of explosions. They appeared on the Internet video Tourists running from the beaches against the backdrop of pillars of black smoke. Media Wrote On mass evictions from boarding houses and many hours of traffic jams in the direction of Russia because of tourists leaving the peninsula.

Among such messages appeared and Video With a Russian woman who cries and tells how she lived cool in Alushta. How I found out The portal Memedia, the woman's name is Svetlana Loginova, together with her husband Konstantin, she leads the YouTube channel "Super Muzh". The original ten -minute appeared there video, which quickly gained popularity in social networks in the form of short clips And Musical remixes.

Analysis of metadata He showed that the video was downloaded on YouTube on August 9, 2022 at 19:21 Crimean time. Explosions in the Crimea, because of which the release of the Loginov family was allegedly interrupted, happened August 9 at about 15:20. That is, four hours have passed between explosions and the download time of video on YouTube. The video ends with shots from the Crimean bridge, that is, before downloading the file on YouTube, the family at least reached the Krasnodar Territory. Without traffic jams path From Alushta to the Krasnodar Territory, he would take a little more than three hours, but judging by Svetlana’s comments in the first seconds of the video, because of huge traffic jams they “barely rolled”. Therefore, it is unlikely that the authors of the video would have managed to cross the Kerch Strait in four hours, but also edit and upload a video report of their journey.

Several times in the frame you can see the clock in the car. At the entrance to Simferopol (at the video mark 3:06), the clock shows 12:45. Shortly before the entrance to the Crimean bridge (7:30) on the clock 16:11. That is, if the automobile hours show the correct time, the family left Crimea a few hours before the explosions. Another temporary mark is the commentary of Svetlana herself. In the video at 4:34, she says: “We had to leave early in the morning, and we left at 11 o’clock from Alushta. And half of the second time, and we only left Simferopol on the federal highway. ” Thus, at the time of the explosions, the Loginov family was already on the way.

In addition to this video simultaneously with YouTube, it was also Loaded On the video platform "Yandex.Zen". In the comments to the video, one of the users criticized the author of the video for “breaking panic” and left the Crimea. In response, the owner of the account wrote “We are leaving because the ticket was over, and there is no panic. By the way, on Saturday (August 6. - Approx. Ed.) We left. ”

Thus, the family from the viral video left Crimea three days before the explosions, and their departure was not connected with incidents in Novofeodorovka on August 9. Most likely, the misconception arose due to the time of the appearance of a video on the Internet, which coincided with numerous messages about Russian tourists who hurriedly leaving Crimea after explosions.

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Read on the topic:

  1. Memedia. "In general, I do not want to leave Crimea." It became known who this woman is from the meme and how the video was shot
  2. Kommersant. "Crimea lost calm"
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