Is it true that a billboard with Zelensky was installed in Milan, which is absorbed by the nostril of donations for Ukraine?

In April 2023, the Internet flew over the Internet: supposedly in Italy there is an installation for donations to Ukraine under the name "Zelensky's nostril". We checked the authenticity of the video given as evidence.

It is reported that the viral 21-second video is captured Square in front The Cathedral in Milan, on which there is supposedly there is a stand with a portrait of Vladimir Zelensky and the inscription in English: "Donations for Ukraine." Moreover, this billboard is removed from several angles. It is also shown on the video that if you bring the bill to the hole located on Zelensky’s nose, then the money will be carved into the structure. The video also has a wrecking with the Telegram channel “Evening Omarov” (45,000 views at the time of writing this analysis), where the video laid out April 4, 2023 with the signature: “The bird brought on the tail. Milan, April 3 ". No earlier publications with this video were not discovered.

IN social networks And on YouTube-The channel "Tsargrad" was commented as follows: “Even if it is a fake, it still turned out very funny ... The nose of the leader of Ukraine draws the donations around the clock. Without a break for lunch. The nose of the clown Zelensky is already a legend. So many Monuments erected around the world. " Among other media and resources that told about the unusual Milan design, the newspaper "Moscow Komsomolets", IA"Anti -fascist"As well as publications"Own correspondent","Newinform","Paragraph","Morning South" And other News sites.

The video received the greatest popularity in social networks. So, in Telegram it was published by channels "Media Russia not Moscow"(249,000 views),"Putin in Telegram"(225 000),"Ne. Sahar"(203,000),"Observer"(202 000),"Pozdnyakov 3.0"(179 000),"The first folk"(174 000), Voblya (158,000), "Operation Z"(140 000),"Bocharik (yeah, the same)"(137 000),"Sheikh Tamir"(130,000),"Ivan Utenkov"(111 000),"Ostashko! Important"(101 000),"Skabeeva"(80 000), Putin TG Team (78,000) and "Coachman"(43,000). For a month in VKontakte appeared More than 130 publications about this Milan installation. Also the video is found in Twitter, Tiktok, on Rutube And Livejournal.

“Verified” carefully studied the viral video and noticed there many elements testifying to the digital editing of the roller.

Firstly, at the mark 0:09 a man and a woman pass by the stand with Zelensky, and for a moment in the frame a little to the right of these people appear “copies of their figures”. At that moment, when duplicates disappear, the man’s nose disappears for a short time.

Secondly, on the next frames on the billboard housing in the lower left side of the screen you can see the shadow of the hand holding the bill. At that moment, when the shadow was supposed to fall on the image of Zelensky, part of it is cut off, as if the shadow falls under the poster.

Thirdly, at 0:16 mark, you can see a hand with a ring and hours, and after three seconds the money supposedly donates another person who has neither hours nor a ring-that is, it should be two different persons at different times of time. At the same time, against the background, you can see the same video sequence: a man passes past a billboard in a dark jacket and brown pants.

In addition, with a large approximation, it is clear that the image of Zelensky is moving. This is most clearly demonstrated: the distance between the edge of the poster and one of the scratches (or scuffs) on the billboard case changes.

On the request of Zelensky Milan in Tiktok, we found video, shot in the same square in Milan on April 7 - just three days after the alleged shooting of the viral video. However, at the place where the donations of Ukraine was supposed to be located, there was a billboard with advertising Milano Art Week.

Since the viral video was dispersed not only by the Russian -speaking segment of the network, they wrote a factor from different projects and publications, including Open.online, "Myth detector" Lead Stories, Correctiv, "VOKS Ukraine","Fact-meter" Re: Check, AFP And DPA - All of them came to the conclusion that this is a fake.

For example, our Italian colleagues from Open MarkThe city hall of the city (this is evidenced by the Comune di Milano logo shown in the video of the billboard and it is impossible to place something without official resolution on it. The press service of the municipality reported to journalists: “As for the video shown, the pro-Ukrainian advertising shield is shown for collecting funds for Piazza del Duomo, the Milan City Hall denies that it is genuine, since not a single billboard of this kind has never been agreed on the territory of the municipality.” The same answers received Lead Stories And AFP.

Open editors talked And with the employees of the Security Service of the Milan Cathedral, guarding the surrounding territory, and none of the respondents have ever seen installation with Zelensky. It is reported that even without permission, it would not be possible to install such a design because of the numerous cameras of external video surveillance-if someone tried to do this, the police would intervene. AFP journalist Turned With a similar question to an employee of a nearby restaurant, and he also did not see a billboard with Zelensky.

By words The Open correspondent, who visited the spot, has another serious problem: there is very little space in the billboard so that both a poster and a mechanism for “sucking” money can be installed there. In addition, the Italian Factocrackers drew attention to the fact that in the viral video there is no distance between the image of Zelensky and the stand of the stand, although in reality it should be, since the edges of the poster do not fit closely to the frame. On the lack of a gap indicated And in AFP.

Thus, the only proof of the existence of a billboard for donations in Milan, which can be transmitted through the “Zelensky’s nostril” - a video consisting of cutting different frames and repeatedly edited. The area near the Milan Cathedral is a crowded tourist place, but there are no other videos with such installation on the network, and local authorities and employees of nearby institutions and institutions have never seen such a design. 

“Verified” suggests that part of the viral video is really shot in the square in Milan and subsequently edited, but close -ups, which showed the suction of bills, most likely removed in another place. Probably, the authors of the fake printed the image of the Ukrainian president, made a hole in it, behind which they set up a vacuum cleaner, after which the resulting cadres did not most accurately.

This is not the first example of a fake on the proposed drug use by the Ukrainian president and not even the first related to Milan. A year ago "verified" refuted There are several videos at once, allegedly proving that Zelensky is taking prohibited substances. And in 2023 we made out two more videos: on One allegedly shown the ridiculous Zelensky exhibit in the form of a nose in the Paris Museum, and on friend - supposedly a monument to Zelensky in the form of a nose with white powder, installed in Milan.

Photo on the cover: screenshot "Checked" / social networks

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