Is it true that in the United States at the dog’s exhibition they included the anthem of Ukraine?

On February 24, 2023, reports appeared on the Web that the Ukrainian anthem was used during the awarding ceremony at the American dog exhibition. We decided to check the reliability of the video given as evidence.

The viral video lasts 34 seconds. And, according to the logo that appears in the frame, it is a fragment of the broadcast of the National Championship of the American Club of Dogkovo (AKC). The state anthem of Ukraine sounds from the first second of the video and ends on the 26th, after which the announcer reports the imminent award of the prize for the fourth place. At the same time in Some publications telling about the incident, It is saidthat the anthem was turned on before the exhibition.

Since February 24, posts about this video appeared in numerous Telegram channels. For example, in the channel of TV presenter Ruslan Ostashko, the record was posted twice (121 000 And 102,000 views, respectively, at the time of writing this analysis), and then mentioned The use of the anthem at the exhibition is among the main events of the day. Among other channels that published videos, “Dmitry Nicotin"(297 000),"Putin in Telegram"(264 000),"Uncle Glory"(123,000),"Urgent news"(115 000),"Tin of the day"(104 000), Fox News Russia (104,000), "Kostyan Cat - Official Channel"(100,000),"Yakov Kedmi"(87 000),"War History of Weapons"(85 000), Putin TG Team (83,000), "Rita Ebzeeva"(84,000) and"Julia Vityazeva"(40,000). Authors Rogandar News (51,000 views) so Explained The meaning of the video: “We can call a lot of evidence that the leaders of the United States and European countries are overdoing with“ love and respect ”to Ukraine (of course, we are only talking about the“ window dressing ”in front of the inhabitants of their countries). Apparently, the organizers considered that this is the best that the dog should hear before the performance. At such moments, I only want to look into the head of the one who invented all this and suggested. But, most likely, we will not see anything there, even the brain. ” According to the service TGSTAT, in Telegram at the time of writing this analysis, the total number of views of all the records of the roller with the anthem was more than 3 million.

On February 25, a video of a roller with a hymn appeared in the Russian media, among which "RIA Novosti", radio Sputnik, portal "Ukraine.ru","Moscow Region today", newspaper "Sight" And "Folk news". Moreover, some of them noted that some of the commentators considered such a move of the “banter” by the Americans, dissatisfied with the excessive support of Ukraine. The video also dispersed on VKontakte (examples here, here And here) And Twitter.

According to the official site The American club of dog breeders, in recent years, all national championships of this organization took place in December. At the same time, for some reason, a video with the Ukrainian anthem on the network appeared only on February 24, on the anniversary of the start of the so-called special operation in Ukraine. In 2022 the event passed With 17 By December 18 In the city of Orlando, Florida. “Verified” looked at the awarding ceremony for both days of the exhibition and did not find frames from the viral video in these broadcasts.

The disgusting video begins (0:00) from the general plan of participants, stands with spectators and operators who have fallen into the frame. At the same time, the inscription Sporting Group (“Sports Group”) is visible on the scenery in the center and on the sides - so called The cynological category, which includes, for example, a golden retriever and an Irish setter. Then with 0:14 to 0:19 The judge in this category is shown - Thomas H. Bradley III, and at the mark 0:20 The demonstration of the general plan begins again, which ends in 0:28. At the end of the video shows representatives of the sponsor, the manufacturer of Royal Canin feed, with a reward and check-on it, despite the not-highest quality of the recording, you can consider the inscription National Owner-Handled Series Best in Show and the number 2018.

We checked the broadcasts of the 2018 exhibition and found the desired fragments in Records first day of the event. The beginning of the viral video corresponds to the moment at the mark 4:17:14, however, in the video on the official channel of American Kennel Club, the anthem of Ukraine does not sound: against the background, only the voices of the announcements and the exclamations of the audience are heard. Moreover, not only musical accompaniment is distinguished, but also a video sequence. If it is farably comparing the viral video with an official record, then only the first 19 seconds will coincide, and then the installation varies. For example, in a viral video there is not enough more than 20 seconds, which in the genuine entry go with 4:17:34 to 4:17:57. And the scene with sponsors and check was taken from a completely different moment in the ceremony (in the official broadcast it can be found at the mark 19:33), therefore, the check shows the category of National Owner-Handled Series, not Sporting Group.

Note that the video attached above is posted on YouTube on December 16, 2018 and is a direct broadcast record. In other words, they could not edit him after the video with the anthem was encouraged in February 2023.

The earliest publication on the inclusion of the Ukrainian anthem at the dog exhibition by keywords we found in the Telegram channel "Sheikh Tamir"(144,000 views), where the post with the video appeared on February 24, 2023 at 15:59 Moscow time. Earlier from the same channel, other fake videos began. For example, it was reported that the American television channel allegedly showed speech President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky instead of a funny video with a dog and what is in the new clip The singer Madonna seems to knock down a pawn in the colors of the Ukrainian flag from the chessboard. Both records turned out to be installation.

Thus, messages about the use of the anthem of Ukraine during an exhibition of dogs in the United States are not true. The video used as evidence was mounted from different fragments of the 2018 video, and the anthem is imposed on top of the original sound.

Photo on the cover: Screenshot "Checked" / American Kennel Club

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