In September 2023, he became a viral video, allegedly capturing an advertisement for a special menu, which Kiev restaurant “Mom Gochi” offers its customers. We checked whether this video was true.

The video shot at the entrance to the restaurant of Georgian cuisine “Mom Gochi” in Kyiv spread widely on September 20. A chalk board is recorded in the frame, on which the action is advertised: for 500 UAH, visitors are offered “barbecue with Karabakh smoke” and Shot “For Pashinyan”. With comments whose essence boils down to the fact that “Ukrainians are mocking the Armenians” shared the video, in particular, Telegram channels “Uncle Glory"(214,000 views at the time of writing this analysis),"Ukraine.ru"(110 000),"Scott Ritter in Telegram"(107 000),"Ostashko! Important"(107,000) and many others. Also about video wrote a number of pro -Russian Media, the plot became popular on social networks "VKontakte" And "Classmates", Users and users shared it Facebook.

The video spread against the background escalations The conflict in Nagorno -Karabakh - September 19, Azerbaijan announced the beginning of hostilities. Armenia did not intervene in conflict. The very next day the authorities of the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic They said On the cessation of resistance, and on September 28, the President of the NKR signed Decree on the cessation of its existence. Russian propagandists They accused In exacerbation of the conflict of Armenian Prime Minister Nikola Pashinyan, whose policy (especially recently) was aimed at rapprochement with the West.

Already on the day of the distribution of the video, on September 20, on the official page of the Gochi Mom restaurant on Instagram, it was published refutation. Employees of the institution called the viral video a fake and posted their own photos and videos shot from the same angle - they also hit the chalk board at the entrance. In a commentary to the Georgian fact of a factory project "Myth detector"The representative of the restaurant noted that he turned to the police in order to find the author of the viral video.

All sources that distributed the statement are divided by one single video and stop-frames from it. “Verified” did not find the videos shot from another angle, or photographs that would confirm the presence of a chalkboard with similar inscriptions at the entrance to the Kiev restaurant. It is unlikely that passers -by and guests of the establishment would not share such provocative advertising if she actually appeared - “Mom Gochi” located In a crowded place, a stone's throw from Khreshchatyk, between the Daidan of Nezalenniy and the House with Himors (one of residences President of Ukraine). The search for references to such an announcement on Ukrainian -language blogs and social networks did not give results, as well as a search on the Internet, limited in the UA domain zone.

The earliest of the found posts found in Telegram on this subject were published simultaneously on September 20 at 15:18 Moscow time in the channel of TV presenter Ruslan Ostashko and in the channel "Russia in Telegram". The content of the records is almost identical, the only difference is the water signal of the channel on the video in the publication of the Ostashko.

Posts in the channels "Ostashko! Important "and" Russia in Telegram "

In this case, the video contains signs of manipulation. The center of the chalk board in the viral video is significantly darker than the edges - this may indicate that the inscription about barbecue with the Karabakh smoke was applied using the computer program already when editing. On the restaurant owners of the restaurant photo and video published on the same day, there is no such difference, the board is monophonic. In addition, in the video there is no grass behind the step on the approach to the restaurant and near the wall of the establishment itself, which indicates different dates of shooting.

Left: frame from viral video, right: frame from the official account of the restaurant “Mom Gochi” (for clarity in the photo, contrast was strengthened)

Thus, all direct and indirect certificates allow us to conclude with a high degree of confidence that the video is fabricated - there are no videos or photos shot from another angle on the Internet, and signs of installation are visible on the frames. Moreover, the viral video, apparently, was shot before the aggravation around the Nagorno -Karabakh, and representatives of the Kyiv restaurant deny the existence of such a chalkboard at the entrance to their institution.

Photo on the cover: Stop frame from viral video