In April 2023, a video spread, on which the church belonging to the UOC supposedly burns. The video was accompanied by an explanation that it was a temple in the Nikolaev region. We decided to check if this is so.
Both the media and bloggers were reported about the allegedly burnt church in the Nikolaev region. April 5 told about this "Tsargrad-TV", The next day - TV channel"Moscow 24" And "News". Wrote about the temple and popular Telegram channels, including "Ne. Sahar"(250,000 views at the time of writing this analysis),"Observer🇷🇺🇺🇦"(220,000), Voblya (162 000), Readovka (131 000), "Ostashko! Important"(52,000) and"Solovyov"(18,000). Of the last three channels, however, the recording was subsequently deleted.
Messages about the allegedly burnt church in the Nikolaev region began to appear since April 5. The earliest post in Telegram that managed to find is a record in the channel "Putin in Telegram"(288,000 views). It was accompanied by the clarification that the “radicals” - supporters of the Ukrainian church burned the temple in the village of Novoltavka.
It must be explained that the message appeared against the background Exacerbations of the conflict between the Ukrainian authorities and Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC), affiliated with the Moscow Patriarchate. “Ukrainian radicals” and “schismatics” by the Russian media and pro -Kremlin bloggers call parishioners of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Ukraine (PCU). The Ukrainian authorities demanded that the UOC leave the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra after the end of the lease on March 31, was also placed under house arrest by the rector of Lavra Metropolitan Pavel (Lebed), who was accused of approving Russian aggression.
Stopfake project discoveredThat the video that has been dispersed on social networks and the media is actually nothing to do with Ukraine. It was published on YouTube back in 2013 under the name "The Church in Ilyinka 4 is on. It was loaded by the user Elena Kurganova - Judging by other videos, the parishioner of this church.
Ilyinka - This is a village in the Volodarsky district of the Astrakhan region. It was there that in 2013 the temple of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God burned out. For the region, this was a serious incident: the church of the beginning of the 20th century with its carved platbands was considered a local attraction. He was dedicated to the fire plot Soyuz television channel, in which the incident was commented on by representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church, the vice-governor, and the State Duma deputy.
In 2013, regional media remindedthat the church was already burning in 2004. In 2016, the temple built Reveal.
As for the village of Novoltalvka, Nikolaev region, there is really a temple of the UOC - Church of the Holy Equal -to -Apostles Mary Magdalene. But to the church, burning on the video, it is only similar to the presence of a bell tower and a belfry. In the photo, characteristic gates are visible, which are not in the video.
Thus, in a video that applies as evidence of the alleged burning of the church in the Nikolaev region of Ukraine, a fire in Russia, in the Astrakhan region, is actually captured. This story has nothing to do with Ukraine.
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