A quote from Mateusa Moravetsky was widely dispersed on the Web that Ukraine will be safe under the protector of Poland: “I don’t think that Putin dares to attack a country that is an existing NATO member.” We checked whether the head of the Polish government made such a statement.

The phrase of Moravetsky enclosed on February 6, 2023. A fully alleged quote sounds like this: “I do not think that Putin dares to attack a country that is an acting NATO member. He is anyone, but not a suicide. Western territories of Ukraine will be safe if they temporarily move under the protectorate of the Polish state. ”

For example, these words on February 6 are on the air of the program "Time will show"On the" First Channel "was read out by the presenter Anatoly Kuzichev. They also talked about them on sites "Tsargrad" Life.ru, "Truth.ru" URA.RU, "Rosbalt" Ruinformer.com, SM.News and others (at the time of writing this analysis, part of the materials is removed). According to the search "VKontakte", Users of social networks placed more than 300 posts with this quote (examples here, here, here, here And here). The channels told about the statement of the Polish Prime Minister "Putin in Telegram"(240,000 views),"Bullet"(195 000),"The first folk"(190 000), Voblya (183,000), "Peacemaker"(156 000),"From the scene"(139 000),"Uncle Glory"(125,000),"Evgeny Prigozhin in Telegram"(114 000),"Cartridge"(101 000),"Kostyan Cat - Official Channel"(101 000),"What happened?"(100,000),"Yakov Kedmi"(85,000),"Ostashko! Important"(78,000 at the time of removal of the record),"Own correspondent"(54,000),"Ilya Kiva - ZOV blood"(44,000) and"Before everyone else. Well, almost. Special operation"(17,000). You can also find a quote on Twitter (here And here), "Zen" Livejournal and on "Picabu".

Video: Record Anatoly Sharia / "Channel One"

None of the above publications in the media and social networks have a link to the source, which would indicate where, when and under what circumstances Moravecki pronounced the quote that interests us. "Verified" failed to find this statement of the politician in the official Twitter Moravetsky, neither on site Chancellery of the Polish Prime Minister, nor in the English or Polish-speaking authoritative media.

The most widespread quote received at Telegram (according to the service TGSTAT, on this platform more than 600 publications were posted with the considered words of Moravetsky, in total they gained more than 5 million views). In addition, there the posts about the prime minister’s statement appeared earlier than on other social networks, so we decided to start the search for the original source with Telegram. The earliest publication was placed In the channel "But my Yandex is a wallet"(More than 18,000 subscribers and 44,000 views at the time of writing this analysis) February 6, 2023 at 13:00 Moscow time.

This Telegram channel is not the first time that the primary source of misinformation, which has dispersed through social networks and the media. For example, “verified” already wrote about the invented in this channel that first appeared in this channel stories about the death of man during the demolition of the monument to Pushkin in Zhytomyr and the false quote The singers of the coin, who allegedly put an ultimatum to the Russians: "Either I, or Putin." Apparently, not all Internet users pay attention to description The channel “But my Yandex Kid”, which says: “A parody, satire on political reality. Only proven fakes. "

By the way, on February 6, a few hours after the initial joking publication about Moraveck and his statement, the channel “But my Yandex Kid” sagged over the media, which took a humorous post seriously. For example, the authors of the channel replaced the record of the Ukrainian blogger Anatoly Sharia, who wrote: "The first level Rossmi bring Moravetsky’s statement that he asks to transfer" part of Western Ukraine to the temporary administration. " I am 99.99% sure that this is a stuffing. Rossmi do not get tired of disgrace? " After that in the channel appeared Such a post: “A channel with 17,000 [subscribers] twists the official media and all kinds of bloggers like Sharia. All for you, beloved friends-subscribers. Fighting with bores further. ”

And on February 7, in the channel "But my Yandex wallet" It turned out A humorous refutation of Moravetsky's quote: "" Give this bastard to Poland. " Moravetsky demanded that Russia arrest the channel administrator, who joked about the transfer of the territories of Western Ukraine to Poland. "Where did he get this? I have not yet offered Zelensky to return our historical territories. The joker must answer in court. Arrest and give Poland this bastard." This post did not cause a similar reaction among the media, which actively quoted the first invented statement of Moravetsky.