In September 2023, a message about a children's book, allegedly issued with the approval of the Russian leader of the occupied part of the Kherson region of Ukraine, became viral. We checked whether there are evidence that such an publication exists in reality.
On September 10 and 11, a photograph of the cover of the book under the heading “How not to succumb to gay propaganda” and with the signature “Approved by the acting governor of the Kherson region Vladimir Saldo” became popular in the publics of the “suffering Middle Ages” in the social network X (formerly Twitter, 420,000 views and almost 8,000 reposts at the time of writing this analysis) and in "VKontakte"(93,000 views, more than 3,000 reposts), on the platform Joyreactor, as well as in the Russian -speaking segment Facebook. On September 12 and 13, the picture published a number of Russian-speaking Telegram channels, in particular "Bullet" (91,000 views), "Urgent news!"(23,000) and TG Team Russia (29,000). In some of these sources, the photos were accompanied by the statement that the book is not only approved, but also written Balance.
Reverse search by photo shows that the cover began to spread over the network no later than September 9th. The earliest of the found posts found was published that day in the Telegram channel "Observer”(29,000 views) at 12:32 Moscow time. Soon an identical record appeared in Ukrainian in the channel "DNIPPRINALY"(12,000 views), and after two hours a picture spread In the Ukrainian -language segment of the platform. After the cover Distracted in X (Twitter) and fell into the publics of the "suffering Middle Ages", causing a wave indignation and sarcastic comments Russian -speaking users both in this social network and Facebook. And September 12, despite the anonymous channels refutations, the message became popular, including in the patriotic segment of the Russian -speaking Telegram.
At the same time, only one photograph parted on the Internet - it was not possible to find pictures from other angles from other angles. If you look for individual details, we can conclude that the design of the cover is assembled by haste: image The boy and other elements are taken from stock sites, most likely from Freepic, and then the cover was printed and photographed.
No information on the release of such a book was “verified” either on book publishers, nor in the official accounts of the balance, or in the reports of official press services, or when searching for messages and comments in the Kherson public in various social networks.
Thus, most likely, the cover was created in a single copy specifically to create a picture and its further distribution. There is no evidence that Vladimir Saldo wrote a similar book or approved its publication, as well as the fact that such a book exists in principle.
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