In May 2023, two covers of foreign publications with cartoons on the topic of the preparing Ukrainian counterattack were distributed on the Internet. We found out whether these are real covers.
French magazine Courrier International
On May 24, 2023, the cover of the publication Courrier International appeared on the network. The title on it reads: “The Ukrainian counterattack on the Styx River” (one of the rivers in the kingdom of the dead from ancient Greek mythology - approx. Ed.). The drawing depicts Ukrainian military under national flags, which Haron is lucky in the boat, in the foreground - the caricaturely depicted by the commander in chief of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces Valery Zaluzhny. Rumors Russian Telegram channels and the media distributed his heavy injury or even death throughout May. Ukrainian authorities and the media, in turn, They saythat the curtain is alive and well. The allegedly existing cover of the French publication was reported, in particular, Telegram channels "Before everyone else. Well, almost. Special operation"(291 thousand views at the time of publication),"Soloviev"(245 thousand) and"Pool N3"(100 thousand). Some Telegram channels, however, called this drawing “Special Faces”, but continued to spread it.
Courrier International is a weekly that comes out on Thursdays, its digital version appears a day earlier. In the distributed image in two places (to the right of the name and in the lower left corner above the barcode) it is indicated that this is supposedly No. 1700, a special issue for May 2023. In the archive of the publication The release under such a number isBut he has a different cover, and the topic of the number is an inheritance as a social phenomenon.
In addition, this number is dated June 1, that is, it was released a week after the cover with the sticks appeared on the network. May 24 became available for subscribers No. 1699but he also had a completely different cover illustrating the headline "What if Pizza is not Italian food?" The only special issue of Courrier International for May I went out on May 17 And he was also dedicated to food. There are no traces of the image with the Ukrainian military and in the social networks of the magazine: in Twitter, Instagram And Facebook.
The fact that the cover with the Ukrainian military is fake is also evidenced by some technical details. The extended image on the barcode indicates the number 031183. The real Courrier International covers uses number 03183. This error was made by the authors of the already exit fake carication from this publication - in April, “verified” disassembled in April cover, on which Vladimir Zelensky allegedly took Easter eggs from children with the words "Ukraine needs it!"
The earliest mention of the fake cover we managed to find in the Telegram channel "TV"(23 thousand views), where the post with this image was published on May 24 at 15:22 Moscow time. At 15:51, the cover appeared in the Telegram channel "Before everyone else. Well, almost. Special operation", Through which it was most common (291 thousand views).
Spanish magazine El Jueves
On May 30, another viral image appeared on the same topic, this time supposedly the cover of the Spanish satirical magazine El Jueves. In the caricature of worms, human bones are gnawed, one of them says: “What is the counterattack? We have not yet finished after the previous one. ” One of the skulls is worn by a helmet with the Ukrainian flag, from which it becomes clear that we are talking about Ukrainian soldiers. Publications with this image appeared in many popular Telegram channels, for example, Colonelcassad (352 thousand views), ""Uncle Glory"(158 thousand) and"What happened?"(106 thousand).
The viral image indicates the issue number - 2388. Such a number in archive of covers There is no magazine, the last number that came out at the time of writing the analysis is No. 2387, and it is dedicated to artificial intelligence. The same forgrade (2388) the authors of the caricature used and Last timeWhen they created an Easter cover about Zelensky and Ukrainians.
As in the case of Courrier International, there are other technical details that indicate that the cover is fake. A barcode is placed in the lower left corner of the distributed image, over which the number 02375 is indicated on the right. On these covers of the Spanish satirical magazine, this number coincides with the issue number. Thus, if we were talking about No. 2388, then the number 02388 would be above the barcode. The number 02375 is on the already disassembled “checked” fake covers that attributed EL Jueves, for example, In November 2022 (cover about the call of Russian pranks to the Polish president) and in April 2023 (Easter cover about Zelensky). Obviously, the authors of the fake either forget to change the numbers each time using the same template, or do it intentionally.
The earliest mention of the fake cover we managed to find in the Telegram channel "Before everyone else. Well, almost. Special operation"(12 thousand views), where the post with this image was published on May 30 at 11:35 Moscow time. It is this channel that most often first publishes fake covers: for example, in mid -April there appeared Fake covers of several European magazines.
Photo on the cover: Collage "Checked" / social networks
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