Users of social networks distribute videos and photos that allegedly captured the double of the President of Ukraine. We checked the validity of such statements.
The theory of the double of Vladimir Zelensky began to spread among Internet users on February 25, 2023. Hundreds of Telegram channels wrote about a double who “ride with Zelensky constantly, and sometimes instead”-among them were "Timofey Vi | The v"(279,000 views at the moment of writing this analysis),"Scott Ritter in Telegram"(191 000),"Solovyov"(188 000)"The first folk"(187 000),"Sheikh Tamir"(172 000), and"Coachman"(57 000). Public post "People z"On VKontakte at the time of writing this analysis, I gained more than 14,000 views. One of Twitter users wrote: “If the video is truthful, now we understand who went to the front to the Soledar and Artyomovsk area (this is how the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut was called until 2016, the same name is used by Russian pro -government media. - Approx. Ed.). And it was not Zelensky. " According to the other versions, the presence of a double explains, "how it turned out that the potion" heroically traveled to Bakhmut and Kherson. " The next day, the Russian media picked up the story: ""RIA Novosti", Lenta.ru, "News","Tsargrad","Arguments and facts"And others.
Soon after visit US President Joe Biden in Kyiv on February 20, 2023, photographs and videos began to appear in the media from the meeting of two presidents. So, in Video The Polish publication FAKT shows how the presidents of Biden and Zelensky together climb the stairs of the Mariinsky Palace - the ceremonial residence of the Ukrainian leader in Kyiv. The attention of Internet users was attracted by a man walking in a couple of meters behind Vladimir Zelensky. Many noted that he looks like the president and supposedly dressed in exactly the same clothes. Another fragment of the same report shows how this man looks out from behind the doors behind Zelensky, while he poses for journalists next to the US president. Users of social networks of steel approvethat the double of the President of Ukraine accidentally fell into the report of the Polish media.
In fact, a person in the video, who was mistaken for a double of the Ukrainian leader, is his guard Maxim Donets. It can be better considered on video higher quality published by the UATV channel. In numerous reports, shot during the meeting of Zelensky and Biden, Donets is almost always a few meters from the President of Ukraine. During the visit of the American leader to Kyiv, Donets really dressed in a black sweatshirt, like Zelensky, but the similarity ends. The Ukrainian president was dressed in gray trousers, and his bodyguard in the military pants of camouflage colors. The Donets viral video only see from afar, and some might seem to be reminiscent of Zelensky outwardly, but in reality the men are not at all like, and Donets could hardly go beyond the double of the President of Ukraine. Even if Zelensky had a double, it is not clear why he had to be in the same frame with the “original”.
Zelensky appointed Donets, the head of the Security Service of the President of Ukraine, shortly after his election to the presidency in 2019. Since then, Donets has been accompanied by the Ukrainian leader at almost all public events (including during working trips to raisins in September, in Kherson in November and Bakhmut in December last year). In January 2023 Life.ru He even devoted a separate publication to the Zelensky bodyguard - with many photographs and details of his biography. Donets is enough Popular in Ukraine - fans even created dedicated to him page Tiktok, which signed 280,000 users, and the video published there sometimes gain several million views.
The earliest publication on the double of Zelensky was the post in the Telegram channel Putin TG Team. February 25 at 12:11 PM there placed a screenshot from the FAKT report with a comment: “Zelensky, accusing Putin of the maintenance of the army of doubles, himself burned his double. This became known after the publication of personnel, illuminating Biden's visit to Kyiv. ”
Thus, a man who supposedly “leaked the Polish FAKT channel” is not a double of Zelensky, but his bodyguard Maxim Donets, who, within the framework of his duties, almost always accompanies Zelensky. But it is unlikely that the Donets would have fitted on the role of the President’s double. Firstly, he himself is quite recognizable in Ukraine, and secondly, Donets and Zelensky are not at all alike.
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