At the end of March 2023, reports appeared in the Ukrainian media about the sale of Ukrainian Chernozem in the Russian capital. As evidence, a screenshot from the website of the shopping center was attached. We decided to check if this is true.

On March 29, the Ukrainian media wrote about the sale in Moscow of Fertile Ukrainian Chernozem, as soon as the screenshot from the Yuzhny shopping center in Moscow began to spread over the network. For example, this was reported "RBC-OKRAїon", "Focus" And Informator. Wrote about this in social networks: in particular, the news published in his Telegram channel Advisor to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Anton Gerashchenko.

The only evidence of the sale of Ukrainian chernozem in Moscow is still the same screenshot from the site of the Yuzhny shopping center.

March 29 on the website of the shopping center and the truth appeared Such an announcement, it remained in the web archive. Perhaps the picture that has become popular is the screenshot of the mobile version of the ad (it differs from the desktop, it differs in aligning the heading on the left edge and other font).

On the same day, the announcement was deleted, and on the website of the shopping center Placed Another message. The administration of the shopping center stated that the site was hacked.

Judging by the fact that the font and design of the two publications coincide in many ways, it can be assumed that either the site was really hacked and strangers got into the internal administration system, or one of the employees posted an announcement about the sale of a blacksmith.

The hypothesis that chernozem was really sold in the shopping center and the announcement was removed after the scandal is unlikely. Firstly, the announcement was deleted on the day of publication, even before the scandal gained momentum. Secondly, other announcements of the sale in Moscow or other large Russian cities of Ukrainian chernozem could not be found. Thirdly, in this section The Yuzhny shopping center website had no news on the sale of a particular product. The latest messages are devoted to the opening of new cafes, shops and entertainment spaces, as well as the stages of the construction of the shopping center.

The structure of this section allows you to find traces of another hacking. There are only six news in the section, and at the end of the address of the hacking, the number 462 is indicated. If in a row, recruitment numbers in the address line, in the Internet archive you can find another strange messagededicated to the allegedly starting sales of the Wagner Hammer, and not in the Yuzhny shopping center, but in the Metro, Auchan and Leroy Merlen retail chains, which are not related to it. It was posted on the website of the Yuzhny shopping center in early December, then it was deleted, but a copy of the page was preserved in the web archive.

This post once again proves that someone had access to the site management, and for many months. After the first hacking, the message was simply deleted, which did not prevent the unknown to subsequently perform the same operation. Interestingly, the message about the "Hammer Wagner" can detect On the site of another shopping center - in Perm. And there it, too, was clearly not authorized by the store administration and is now deleted.

Thus, there are no other traces of the organized sale of Ukrainian chernozem, except for one announcement on the site that disappeared on the same day. Therefore, today the news about the start of sales in the Russian shopping centers of Ukrainian Chernozem is not true.

Photo on the cover: Screenshot "Checked"