In early July 2023, an image of a poster appeared on the network, which allegedly called Polyakov to enter the contract in the army to resist the Russian threat - primarily mercenaries from the Wagner PMC. We decided to check if this is true.
On July 4, a viral picture depicting a poster in Polish began to spread in social networks. The photo is the situation of public transport, and on the poster itself - the cross -drawn portrait of the founder of the CBC "Wagner" Evgenia Prigozhin. On top of the poster it is written: "Poland, the shield of Europe." From below-an explanation: “Voluntarily mandatory military service. Protect Europe from crazy Russian. ” Even lower - the emblem of the Ministry of Defense of Poland and the contact phone. This image was widely dispersed through social networks. In particular, TEELGRAM channels wrote about this "Observer🇷🇺🇺🇦"(222,000 views at the time of writing this analysis),"Uncle Glory"(182 000), Voblya (169,000). This photograph appeared in other social networks - for example, in Twitter,VKontakte" And Livejournal.
A photo with a poster, which supposedly scares Poles Prigozhin, appeared against the background of growing stress in Poland associated with relocation Wagnerians from Russia and the occupied territories of Ukraine to Belarus. After a failed attempt to rebellion on June 23–24, mercenaries He called On the territory of the country Alexander Lukashenko. A month later, the situation began to seriously bother Poland: in Belarus Equipped War Camp for PMC "Wagner", mercenaries Teach Belarusian special forces, and Lukashenko declaresthat the Wagnerians are eager to go to Warsaw. Polish Defense Minister Mariusz Blashcak July 23 reportedthat the government will create a new military base near the Suvalka corridor-a segment of the Polish-Lithuanian border between Belarus and the Kaliningrad region of the Russian Federation.
The image of the poster at a public transport stop appeared on social networks at the very beginning of the processing process in Belarus. The phone indicated in the lower part of the poster is indeed belongs The service of the military service of the Ministry of Defense of Poland. But it was not possible to find a similar poster on the site or in social networks of the military department.
AFP factor found outthat public transport stops, similar to the one depicted in the disclosed photograph, really exist in Poland, namely in Krakow, where they were painted blue until recently. In 2022, old blue stops They began to change On silver, more modern form (however, this process has not yet been completed).
At the same time AFP failed Find a stop at which all the routes indicated in the photo would stop (No. 11, 18, 23, 52 and 62).
As follows from news On the official city website of Krakow, the tram route No. 23 was canceled in January 2018. And this means that the photograph was taken until this time, from 2012 (when the route was launched) to 2018. This was confirmed by AFP and representative of the Krakow transport company Sebastian Koval. In addition, he helped the fact of the factor to identify the exact location of the stop-according to him, this is the stop of the “hops” in the south-west of the city.
Another source of information is the letters MS, which are visible on the glass of stops. This is part of the AMS inscription - the company logo that is engaged in maintaining public transport stops in Krakow.
In response to an AFP request, AMS representative Ilona Kondrata said that there were never such posters on any of the company's objects. In confirmation of her words, she sent a fresh photograph of the Hmolen stop.
Since June 2, 2023, there is a poster dedicated to sports competitions, and not to recruiting in the army and Prigozhin.
AFP also found the original photograph, which the authors of the fake turned into a poster with Prigozhin. On a travel blog in 2015 There was a record About the system of public transport in Krakow. At one of the illustrations is the same stop: not only the details of the landscape and route numbers coincide, but even the unidentified white garbage on the lawn beyond the iron fence.
Finally, official representatives of the Polish Ministry of Defense also spoke out. In an AFP letter, the press service of the department said: “The ministry, including institutions subordinates to the Ministry of Defense responsible for the recruitment of candidates for the Polish army, are not the authors of this poster. Our logo was used illegally or falsified. ” And General Miroslav Bryshch, responsible for the call for military service wrote On Twitter, that the distributed photo with Prigozhin is another attack from the Russian propaganda, the purpose of which is to sow chaos.
Thus, the image of a poster with Prigozhin at a bus stop in Poland is Fake. The original photograph was taken no later than 2015, then it was edited. The earliest mention of this poster that we managed to find is a post in the Telegram channel "Shaman Rahu", Published on July 4 at 12:39 pm Moscow time.
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