Is it true that the photo shows a dark -skinned soldier of the Russian Army with call sign coal?

In June 2023, an image of a supposedly dark -skinned Russian soldier with an inadvertible nickname appeared in social networks. We checked whether this is a real frame and whether such a person exists.

The viral picture shows a dark -skinned man in a vest against a background of military equipment. The signature on the image states that this person is the commander of the call sign with the call sign, and in some publications it is specified that he is from Angola. The authors of the viral posts emphasize that this is not a frame from the “next series from Netflix”, and joke that “now the condrash would have grabbed Western liberals”.

Such records are posted in Telegram channels "Rhymes and Panchi 🔞+"(91,000 views at the time of writing this analysis),"What is going on?"(39,000),"Before everyone else. Well, almost. Special operation"(14,000),"Goose farm"(13,000),"News and reports of the DPR Donetsk | He"(12 000),"Chick"(3000) and others. The most viral post, which" verified "was able to find, appeared on VKontakte in the public" Rhyme and Panchi ": at the time of writing this analysis, he Collected More than 300,000 views and 7200 likes. In VKontakte, you can find other coal records (examples here And here). In addition, the corresponding publications are in "Zen", And one of the English -language tweets with a viral image received More than 93,000 views.

Photo: screenshots of posts from vk.com and service TGSTAT

The dispersed image is not an independent photo - this is a screenshot of a video, in the upper right corner of which is located emblem Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. In the official Telegram channel of the department, “checked” found video clip, published on June 10, where the coal commander was indeed shown - he told what the work of the repair battalion is. However, in the video, this soldier does not look at all like in viral posts.

Video: Russian Ministry of Defense

The skin of the skin, nose and some other details of the fighter's face, nicknamed coal on the original frames, differ. Judging by the fact that the viral image shows the same position of the head, a look and a mole on the cheek as the person from the video of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the author of the fake used one of the many applications by changing the appearance of people in the photo. At the same time, it came out inaccurately, since part of the neck of the hero’s hero remained with a different shade of the skin.

Viral screenshot (from above) and original (below). Photo: collage "Checked" / social networks / Ministry of Defense of Russia

The earliest publication of those that found "verified", was District on June 12, 2023 at 10:43 Moscow time in the Putin TG Team Telegram channel (62,000 views). This channel is one of the record holders in the number of references in our analysis. For example, Putin TG Team published Fake photos from anonymous subscribers, fake video reports of television channels And The story of celebrities, Mounted rollers, satirical news Under the guise of real, fake Screenshots of sites And Video from the streets, images of non -existent textbooks, graffiti And covers Foreign magazines - and this is far from a complete list. Moreover, this channel is not the first time turns out The primary source of misinformation.

Photo on the cover: social networks

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