Are the videos from school assemblies on September 1, 2023 in Ukraine, during which the songs “Mochim Muscovites” and “Ugly Muscovite” were played, true?

On Knowledge Day, two videos from Ukraine went viral on the RuNet: in one of them, first-graders are led to music with words about the murder of Muscovites, and in the other, teenagers dance to a composition with the phrase “Get out of Ukraine, you ugly Muscovite.” We have verified the authenticity of both entries.

Both videos began circulating on social networks on September 1, 2023. One of them shows a school line, in which high school students are leading first-graders by the hand, while a song allegedly plays in the background with the words “We are poisoning, poisoning, poisoning, wetting, wetting, wetting, so persistently wetting the Muscovites.” Telegram channel «The world today with "Yuri Podolyak""reposted the channel's publication"The world of Mikhail Onufrienko”(1.7 million views at the time of writing this text) with the following words: “Can you imagine that first-graders in Russia on September 1 would go to school to the song “We’re killing crests!”? So I can’t imagine. And this is the main and fundamental difference between our civilization and the Satanists of the Kyiv junta.” VGTRK correspondent Alexander Sladkov (412,000 views) commented video like this: “Ukraine has turned itself into a training zone for murderers and nationalists. <…> Who and how to fix all this? Only for us." Regnum editor-in-chief Marina Akhmedova (31,000 views) called what is happening in the video is “another crime against children and their childhood,” channel Rus_criminal (117,000) - “training Russophobe larvae on instructions from the West,” actor Oscar Kucera (32,000) wondered how “would-be teachers” would explain this in the future. TV presenters published similar posts Ruslan Ostashko (106,000 views) and Olesya Loseva (16,000), as well as channels "Russia now"(285,000), "Ne.Sugar"(267,000), "Bad News 18+"(262,000), "Uncle Slava"(198,000), "Observer"(188,000), "Putin on Telegram"(181,000), Voblya (146,000), "First People's"(131,000), "Bullet" (121 00) and "Ivan Utenkov"(117,000). In addition, this video was reported by the media, including EADaily, "Ukraine.ru", "Morning south" And "Mriya", as well as users YouTube, Rutube, "Odnoklassniki", X/Twitter (for example, showman Andrey Bocharov), "VKontakte" And LiveJournal.

Another video shows high school students performing in front of parents, teachers and other students. According to the recording that went viral, the teenagers danced to music with the words “Get out of Ukraine, you ugly Muscovite.” The most viral publications were from Telegram channels “Uncle Slava on Telegram" (65,000 views) and "Observer”(191,000), where the performance was commented on as follows: “Oh, poor kids, they are in captivity of the criminal Nazi government. We'll release you soon." According to the TGStat service, posts with this video alone are almost never found on Telegram, since most often it is distributed together with the one described above. Many channels talked about the two videos at once, including “Sheikh Tamir"(115,000 views), "Kot Kostyan - official channel" (85,000) and "Ukraine.ru"(77,000). Channel "Heavenly” (143,000 views) wrote that the video demonstrates “powerful processing from the age of six” and “technology to drive you crazy.” Blogger Alexander Semchenko (82,000 views) added: “And then these children grow up to be sadists.” In the channel Zergulio (91,000 views) believe that in Ukraine they are “purposefully raising an army of zombies,” and the publication Readovka (901,000) - that first-graders were sent to a factory to create Azov citizens.

“Verified” noticed that the movements of the children and the clapping of the spectators captured on the video do not coincide with the rhythm of the music being played. We tried to track down the original publication with two videos and mentions of songs about Muscovites. Since the mass distribution of recordings began with Telegram, we searched specifically on this social network. According to the TGStat service, the earliest post appeared On September 1 at 16:17 Moscow time in the Russian Patriot channel (6100 views), which said: “The brainwashing of Ukrainian children begins right from the school line. On September 1, children are preparing performances to the songs “Ugly Muscovite” and “We’re Wetting the Muscovites!” Three minutes later, similar publication came out in the channel “Shaman Rahu” (2700 views), which more than once distributed fakes; this post states that the videos were allegedly sent by an anonymous subscriber from Ukraine. At the same time, the author clarifies that the song “We’re killing the Muscovites!” sounded on the lineup in Vinnitsa, and “Ugly Muscovite” - in Poltava.

Below we will analyze both videos separately.

“We’re killing the Muscovites!” (supposedly Vinnitsa)

The viral video lasts 27 seconds, during which the song “We kill Muscovites!"("We're killing the Muscovites!") from Valeria Okhtyrchanka. We found the original entry in TikTok on request “pershiy dzvonik” (“first call”) - she was published on this platform September 2, 2022. The video was posted by the account “Sorochka Vishivanka” (@sorochka.vishivanka0011), and in fact it contains the song “School song"("School Song") from the Creative Center of Natalia May. It does not touch upon military topics.

Since the video does not capture any notable objects that could be used to establish the location of the shooting, for geolocation “Verified” we studied Instagram-account “Vishivanochka shirt”. In a post on this social network near the video available signature: “1st and 11th grades of the Trinity Lyceum,” and the geotag indicates the exact location: the village of Troitsa in the Ivano-Frankivsk region of Ukraine.

Thus, the video was edited: instead of a song about school, unknown people superimposed the song “We’re killing the Muscovites!” on top of the video. and indicated the wrong location for filming. Moreover, the recording from a year ago was passed off as fresh.

Fake

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“Ugly Muscovite” (allegedly Poltava)

Using a screenshot of a viral video, using reverse search from the picture “Verified” found the original video in TikTokwhere was he published back on August 31, 2022 in the account of a girl named Dana (@_diamant_0803); in her profile you can find and other videos from the same schools. According to the tags, the video captured the performance of the 11th grade during the first bell on September 1. At the end, senior students are shown leading first-graders by the hand.

The length of a TikTok recording is 2 minutes. 24 seconds, while only a 31-second fragment, during which the fragment is heard, was distributed on the RuNet compositions Jerry Heil entitled “Moskal is ugly (Get out of Ukraine!)” (“Moskal is ugly (Get out of Ukraine!)”) - in it this phrase is repeated by Verka Serduchka. The excerpt that became the basis of the viral video begins at 00:47 and ends at 01:18 of the full video. “Verified” watched the original TikTok video in its entirety and identified all the songs in it:

1. 00:00–00:39 — “Nightingale» by Go_A (the song was released at the beginning of 2020);
2. 00:39–00:40 - track of 2021 "Good evening, from Ukraine"("Good evening, we are from Ukraine") by Probass Hardi;
3. 00:40–01:10 — track “Get out of Ukraine!"("Get Out of Ukraine!") by Nick de Grand. This composition is also inspired phrase from Verka Serduchka's 2004 concert, but noticeably different from the Jerry Heil track;
4. 01:10–01:37 — track “Additional help ZSU"("Will help the Ukrainian Armed Forces") by Chico & Qatoshi, published in the spring of 2022. In the lyrics of the song, in particular, the Russian military are called orcs;
5. 01:37–01:45 — song “Ukraine can help"("Ukraine will win"), performed by Alexander Ponomarev, Dzidzio, Taras Topolya, Evgeniy Koshevoy, Yuriy Tkach and Pyotr Cherny. The text contains the lines “Enemy equipment is burning, burning / Native Ukraine will win”;
6. 01:45–01:52 - melody from a song released in early 2022 Stefania Kalush Orchestra;
7. 01:52–02:24 — song “Vchitelko persha"("The First Teacher").

As for the location of the school, it is not in Poltava. In the comments under the original video, one of the users mentioned Tyvrov is an urban-type settlement in the Vinnytsia region of Ukraine. In this locality located Tyvrov Lyceum of the Tyvrov Village Council, whose group we found in Facebook and compared photo from a profile with a screenshot of a viral video.

Thus, the video that went viral in 2023 was published a year earlier and filmed not in Poltava, but in the Vinnitsa region. Moreover, it was overlaid with musical accompaniment that did not sound in the original. The original video actually contained a track called “Get from Ukraine!” (but from a different artist and at a slightly different time), as well as other Ukrainian patriotic and military songs.

Cover photo: collage “Verified” / social networks

Half-truth

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