At the end of July 2023, social networks distributed reports that in the capital of Japan from Zelensky they demanded to stop the war. This allegedly confirms the billboard on one of the streets that fell on the video. We learned if this record is real.
A 12-second video appeared on July 30, and the peak of its spread came the next day. It is reported that this video captures a large screen located on a building in Tokyo, where it is written in English: “Stop Zelenskyy, Stop War”. In numerous publications, this phrase is translated as “Stop Zelensky, Stop War” or “Stop Zelensky, stop the war”. Often the authors of the posts Checkthat the place of action is a special area of Sibuya (many write "Shibua"). Similar records were placed by Telegram channels "Scott Ritter in Telegram"(116,000 views at the time of writing this analysis),"Bottle"(111 000),"Ivan Utenkov"(96 000),"Militarist"(93,000),"Federation"(93,000),"Yakov Kedmi"(78 000),"Release Kraken!"(62 000),"Forbidden"(54 000), TG Team Russia (45,000) and "DPR 🅉 info 🇷🇺"(45,000).
In terms of posts, the authors shared their interpretation of the video. For example, in the channel "Russia 2.0”(59,000 views) is considered:“ The whole world with Ukraine, ”they said ... Awareness is already coming to people around the world.” And such an opinion expressed Blogger Alexander Semchenko (54,000): “Japan against the war and Zelensky. The authorities of Japan - for. And so around the world. The people for Russia, the government for Zelensky. Democracy. Look, do not bother. " The most concise commentary on the video appeared in social networks TV channel "Tsargrad”(29,000):“ Tokyo - ours! ”.
There is a video on other platforms, including Rutube (examples here, here, here And here), VKontakte (public Webm (148,000 views), here, here, here And here), Twitteras well as some news sites and Belarusian TV.
On the record really Showed Tokyo district Sibuya, however, on the left side of the video, the Tokyu Toyoko shopping center is noticeable, closed Back in 2020. According to Google, the building was Demoved no later than 2022. In addition, there is only one video on the network that fixes a demonstration of this advertisement about the war and Zelensky, and no English and Japanese-speaking authoritative media did not write about it. It seems unlikely, since Sibuya is one of the most lively and popular areas of the city.
The video was encouraged not only in Russian, but also in English. For example, it was posted on an entertainment site 9GAG, V Tiktok, and also English -speaking Twitter-Accounts, including conservative Canadian media The Post Millennial And Jackson Hinkle - American blogger adhering pro -Russian positions (his tweet gained more than 1 million views). In this regard, the video drew attention to factor from Snopes And Newsweek.
Our colleagues found that the viral record is an excerpt from a 108-minute video called “The Night Walk along Tokyo, Sybua”-his laid out On the YouTube channel Virtual Japan in October 2020. However, in the source video on the screen of the building, not advertising with the words “stop Zelensky, stop the war”, but images of girls and inscriptions in Japanese. In other words, someone edited a genuine video, adding an anti-Ukrainian message there.
The fragment of interest to us It begins At the time mark 21:20.
The likely source of the fake is the Telegram channel "Talipov 𝐎𝐧𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 🅉", Where the post with the video scored more than 57,000 views and was published on July 30 at 13:38 Moscow time. The earlier publications were “verified” could not be found. At the end of June, it was from this channel that a false video from New York began to spread, where supposedly appeared A banner with the words "there is no Zelensky - there is no war." That fake Similar considered in this analysis: someone changed a fragment of a video published on YouTube in 2021.
Photo on the cover: screenshot "Checked" / social networks / virtual japan
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