At the end of September 2023, the news dispersed on the Web that Ukrposhta allegedly dedicated the new brand to the Waffen-SS division to the Galica, which is now living in Canada. We decided to check if this is so.
On September 26, reports appeared in social networks about the new Ukrainian brand-supposedly, Ukrposhta placed a portrait of Yaroslav Gunka, a veteran of the Galicia division on it, because of which a scandal erupted a few days earlier during the visit of Vladimir Zelensky to Canada. It was argued that there is no such brand in the online store anymore, but it can still be bought at departments of the Ukrainian postal service. This, in particular, wrote Telegram channels about this "Live broadcast"(680,000 views at the time of writing this analysis),"Uncle Glory"(205 000),"Truthfulness"(200,000),"Distilled on z -war 🇷🇺"(197 000) and"Ostashko! Important"(109,000).
The news about the brand with Yaroslav Gunka appeared against the background Scandal In the Canadian parliament, which occurred during the visit of the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky. On September 22, Zelensky spoke to Canadian legislators, and after his speech, the speaker of the House of Commons Anthony Roth proposed to be thanked by the applause of the veteran of the Second World War. It soon became clear that Yaroslav Gunka at that time served in the Ukrainian division of Waffen-SS Galicia. As a result, the scandal broke out, the Canadian authorities apologized, and the speaker of the House of Commons He resigned.
Posts about an allegedly released brand are accompanied by two photographs. On one of them, as stated, the brand itself, on the other, is the same rectangle, but allegedly removed in the Ukrposhta branch.
The image consists of several elements: the background is made in the colors of the Ukrainian flag, on it - Zelensky and his wife in the Canadian parliament; A little to the right of the center is a perforated portrait of Gunka. To the left of the portrait, the inscription "Heroes do not die" in Ukrainian and English. In the upper right corner - barcode.
It is difficult to understand from the photograph whether it is really about a brand in the composition Postal block Or about the postcard that accompanies the release of the brand. If we assume that such a block was released, several inconsistencies are immediately striking. Firstly, the brand does not have the name of the country that released it, and secondly, the face value is not indicated. On modern Ukrainian brands, the nominal nominal nominal is indicated directly, in hryvnias, or using a letter designation. Without this, the brand cannot be considered a sign of postage.
Also, the barcode in the viral image also does not correspond to reality. Each block of brands released by Ukrposhta, he is unique. Factsing project Factcheck.kz Determinedthat this barcode is taken from another postal block, released on August 24, 2022 on the Day of Independence of Ukraine.
In many posts, social networks indicate that in the online store of brands with Yaroslav Gunka no longer, but you can buy them at Ukrposhta departments-probably, using such a note, the authors of such publications wanted to convince those readers who would try to verify the information. However, this is not required to contact the online store. In the case of postage stamps, everything is strictly regulated: each officially released brand is introduced under a certain number to the national catalog, and then to the world. September 14, 2023 Ukrposhta released a series of brands "Cities of heroes. Kharkovshchina". There are four brands in this series, and they are included in the Ukrposhta catalog under numbers 2053–2056. The next series is “Weapons of victory"(Released on September 29) of six marks, which in the catalog are indicated by numbers 2057–2062. It is also known which brand will go on sale of the next - with the image of the cross "For combat merits", At number 2063. At the time of writing, it has not yet been released, but is available for a preliminary order. Thus, for any other brand there is no room in the catalog. The fact that no brands with Gunka were officially released, confirmed In response to the request of the Reuters agency and the representative of Ukrposhta, who called the picture a fake.
The earliest publication with viral photographs that managed to find “verified” is a post in the Telegram channel ”Shaman Rahu"(3000 views), which appeared on September 26 at 13:25 Moscow time. This Telegram channel is already More than once He became The primary source of fake news about Ukraine, representing the photos and videos posted by him as sent by subscribers.
Thus, the image of the brand, which was allegedly released by Ukrposhta, is Fake. The Ukrainian postal department did not print such a brand, and the barcode in the image is taken from another block released a year before.
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