At the end of May 2023, a picture was distributed on the Web, which allegedly shows how the van of the Ukrainian postal company was carrying a certain combat vehicle. We checked the authenticity of the photo.
The photo captures a red truck with the inscription “Nova Poshta” (“New Mail”), inside the trailer of which is a kind of caterpillar technique. Commenting on the picture, the authors of numerous publications accuse the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces of the fact that, using camouflage for civilian vehicles, the Ukrainian military violate Conventionregulating participation in military conflicts. Also owners of some Russian channels They are outraged Why why the head office of the Ukrainian company and the parking of its trucks have not yet become a “legal goal” for the army of the Russian Federation.
The photo began to disperse massively from May 20, 2023, it was placed, in particular, pro-Russian Telegram channels Type40k goblina (Oper.ru) (377,000 views at the time of writing this analysis), "Putin in Telegram"(218 000),"Prigogine in Telegram"(83,000),"The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation"(57 000), Tariknezalejko (55,000), "The logic of Markov"(46,000),"I'm shocked"(36,000),"New 🅉 Ukraine Live"(12 000),"Public news service"(8000) and"In fact in the Dnieper"(8000). In addition, a picture of a mail truck is found in public in VKontakte (examples here, here And here), on Twitter (here, here And here), "Zen", As well as on news resources and media sites, among which "New news".
There are no remarkable details in the viral photo, so it is difficult to determine the place of shooting. However, it is known for sure that the picture was taken a few years ago - according to the results of the reverse search for pictures through the Tineye service, it appeared On the network back in 2015. Moreover, initially in the photo the truck looked different: its trailer was painted blue, and instead of the name of the Ukrainian mail service, the logo of another company was placed on the body. In addition, a car number that is visible in the original - according to the inscription on the sign, the car is smeared in the viral image. registered In Belarus.
The earliest record with the present photo “Checked” was found on the entertainment website “Pikabu”, where the user is under the nickname Zopa1399 Published Its July 19, 2015. Based on the fact that the post has a note "my"(Usually this icon on the platform is marked by author's content), we believe that with a high probability this publication is the primary source of the picture. In addition, on those images where There is no wrapper site pikabu.ru (posted in the lower right corner), traces of its removal are noticeable.
Judging by the external details, is in the back MT-LBU (Multi-purpose conveyor is an easily brown universal)-a floating caterpillar chassis with a universal corps, developed in the USSR in the 1960s.
This method of transporting MT-LBU cannot be called unique: on the network placed many pictures, which shows exactly the same transportation of such technology, and on trucks with Belarusian numbers. “Tested” even found a photo of the same machine from a viral image, but from another angle - it was Layd On VKontakte on July 23, 2015.
As for fake photography, it appeared recently. In the morning May 18, 2023 The press service of "Novo Peshti" reported About the technical failure in the work of a mobile application, because of which customers could not use some services. The next morning of the Prochremile Internet publication Readovka declaredThat technical problems occurred due to the fault of Russian hackers, and Nova Poshta allegedly kept silent about hacking. “As a result of cyber attacks, hundreds of servers were destroyed, which ensured the performance of the mail, including databases. By the way, it was through “Nove PSTU” that the British BRADLYY BMP and the German tanks Leopard were delivered. Now the logistics of the Ukrainian army is even more violated, and the obtained bases will identify specific persons supplying military equipment to the Wecens, ”the publication Telegram channel says. No significant evidence, besides screenshot In low resolution, Readovka did not introduce. At the same time, Nova Poshta announced On the elimination of the problem and the complete resumption of work after four minutes after the post of Russian publication and deniedthat the failure occurred due to a phishing attack.
According to the Ukrainian media, Ukrainians Fleaned The publication of Readovka, calling it “delirium” and creating many memes on its basis. At the same time, one of the humorous flash mobs on his Facebook Beginning Nova Poshta itself, calling the publication about cyber attacks and the delivery of tanks "someone else's fantasies." And in the Tiktok account Nova Post Polska ("New Mail Poland") laid out A playful video on how to pack the tank.
Early on the morning of May 20, a fake photo of a mail truck on Facebook Laid Member of the Presidium of the Council of the Federation of Employers of Ukraine Alexander Sokolovsky. Judging by the signature of “Nenuo ...))” and the playful comments of Sokolovsky, it was clearly a humorous publication. For a few hours a joke Hanged in Ukrainian telegram channels, and on Twitter even appeared The second version of the meme, on which the logo of the New Pryti is a little differently. By the way, this picture was also given a real photo-for example, in the Russian Telegram channel "Alexander Semchenko"(105,000 views).
It is worth noting that messages about the transportation of Western military equipment by the new gloom, in particular British armored personnel carriers Spartan, appeared In the Russian media at the end of February 2023. Then the authors of the notes referred to the video, published The Prochremile Telegram channel “Military Inverse”, where, in turn, unnamed Ukrainian sources mentioned. Two trucks with military equipment were shown on the frames, and one truck has Polish registration numbers and an inaccurately applied sticker with the New Peshti logo. Two inscriptions are imposed on top of the video: #standwithukraine ( #support) and And Another Load Gone Today (“And another party has gone today”).
In early March 2023, the charity fund of Sergey Pritula announcedthat the first batch of 24 units of caterpillar military equipment was delivered to Ukraine (all volunteers in total Bought Donations 101 armored vehicles of eight different models, including Spartan). At the same time, the Fund thanked Nova Poshta, which acted as a logistics partner and delivered an armored personnel carrier to Ukraine for free. “Paying equipment is only part of the story. Next, the quest for the delivery and paperwork began. The armored cars moved more than 2000 km along the UK route - France - Germany - Poland - Ukraine. For transportation of equipment, trucks were used two units per truck or trawl. The company "New Mail" covered logistics expenses and transferred UAH 6 million to this. We saw a video of the transportation of our armored cars in open sources with confident comments that this is going on international assistance from governments, ” - told Director of the Foundation Anna Gvozdyar. Whether the equipment was delivered to branded trucks usually used for civil transportation.
Thus, in May 2023, the authors of pro -Russian resources seriously perceived the memes of Ukrainian users of the network. In the original photograph, which was published almost eight years ago, not a truck of the Ukrainian postal company was captured, but a truck with Belarusian numbers and other logos. Although Ukrainian volunteers reported that Nova Poshta paid for military equipment from abroad, which became viral, three months later, photography could not be confirmed by the fact that armored personnel carriers were transported under the guise of civilian goods.
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