At the beginning of September 2023, the Internet flew around a video of a masturbating man and other photos and video materials, which, stated, can be seen by a candidate for the post of head of the Ukrainian military department. We checked whether Rustem Umarov really is.
September 3, 2023 President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky I put forward To the post of Minister of Defense, the candidacy of the former chairman of the state property fund Rustem Umarov. On the same day, pornographic photo and video materials with a person who looked like this official began to spread along social networks. As stated in the signature, the personnel for several years and they “waited for their wings”.
This information was distributed by some Russian propaganda sites ("Ukraine.ru","Outpost-Sevastopol" Topnews.ru, Rubaltic.ru, "Notebook"), As well as Telegram channels: for example,"Russia now"(347,000 views at the time of writing this analysis),"Uncle Glory"(229 000),"The first folk"(170 000), Voblya (167,000) and "Petya the first"(136 000). The incriminating evidence on the Ukrainian minister was also told in the program "60 minutes"On the TV channel" Russia 1 ".
There were four materials in total: two photos and two videos, shot, judging by the format, on a mobile phone.

At first glance, Umarov assigned The parliament for the post of Minister of Defense of Ukraine on September 6, is not very similar to a person from spread pictures and records - the shape of the hairline on the head, the eyebrows and eyes look different.

However, this is a subjective assessment - to give a more objective answer about the personality depicted on the scandalous materials of a person is helped by technical tools. One of them is service Search4Faceswho, according to a given portrait, is looking for similar people in social networks "VKontakte and Odnoklassniki". Search in the first of them showed that in front of us is highly likely a man named David Kasayev.

Casaev (judging by the questionnaires, a native of Sochi, who later first moved to Georgia, and then to Israel) has several profiles on VKontakte and accounts on dating sites, he is signed on many pages with erotic and pornographic content.
Search through another person recognition service, Pimeyes, brings a similar result: all the same David Kasayev.

Moreover, two photos from profile Casaev in Odnoklassniki are shot against the same background as one of the scandalous photos.

Viral photos and videos, as stated in some Telegram channels that spread them, were made eight years ago. However, in 2015 Umarov He was not at all like a person from the pictures. Most likely, pornographic materials that have been dispersed over the Internet were taken from the profile of Casaev on one of the relevant sites.
The first scandalous selection with the mention of Umarov was posted on September 3 at 22:53 Moscow time Telegram channel "Pozdnyakov 3.0". This resource repeatedly was Noticed In the distribution of inaccurate information related to Ukraine, and it is conducted by Vladislav Pozdnyakov, the creator of the Male State movement, which promoted the inequality on the sexual basis, organizing the injury of people and organizations and extremist in Russia.
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