Is it true that Elena Zelenskaya was found in Crimea?

At the end of September 2023, reports appeared that the first Lady of Ukraine has Russian citizenship: supposedly in her nationalized apartment in Yalta in the cache found a bag with a passport of the Russian Federation. We checked whether this is so.

According to declarations About the income and property of Vladimir Zelensky, the wife of the President of Ukraine bought a penthouse in Yalta back in 2013. In May 2023, the Russian authorities of Crimea Reportedthat the apartment of Zelenskaya I crossed In the ownership of the region, and at the end of September 2023, a video allegedly shot during a search was hung on the network during the assessment of the value of this nationalized real estate object. The video shows that a handbag Zelenskaya was found in the cache, inside which the money and passport of a citizen of the Russian Federation lay. “It is clear that she received him even when they were sometimes called Zelensky from the clown (as in pro-Russian media.-Approx. Ed.) Non-planned to sculpt the president and there was an option to go to Russia,” the Telegram channel said Colonelcassad (291,000 views at the time of writing this analysis). In the channel "#Montyan!"(255,000 views) in the signature for the video asked a reasonable question:“ The Russian security forces did not know before the search about the presence of Lenka Kiyashko (maiden surname Zelenskaya. - approx. Ed.) such a passport? " At the same time, in "Signal"(169,000 views) specified that officially information about the passport" has not yet been confirmed. "

Similar publications appeared in other Telegram channels, among which "Live broadcast"(678,000 views),"Sanya in Florida"(358 000),"Russia now"(263 000),"Putin in Telegram"(194,000),"Uncle Glory"(199 000),"Truthfulness"(188 000),"Observer"(184 000), Voblya (138 000), "Sheikh Tamir"(125,000),"Ostashko! Important"(119 000),"Alexander Semchenko"(86 000),"Yakov Kedmi"(73,000), Brief (69,000) and "Solovyov"(68 000, the post is deleted). Some Russian media wrote about the Russian passport: "Moscow Komsomolets","Tsargrad","Arguments and facts"(The publication is deleted)," "TV Center","Radio Sputnik" And "Time press". Also a viral video with an alleged search is found at Livejournal And in "VKontakte", Where is only one post of public" Bad News " Collected Almost 360,000 views.

“Verified” tried to track where the spread of the viral video began. It turned out that the source is not the resources of the authorities or law enforcement agencies, but the Crimean Telegram channels. According to the TGSTAT service, the earliest publication with the video and keywords appeared In the afternoon of September 28, in the Crimea channel (less than 800 views, the post was deleted on September 30). After 43 minutes, similar recording I went out In the Crimea News channel (27,000 views), while the video was imposed on the video. After another hour, a video with your logo Published The Sevastopol Info channel (10,000 views) - it was this version from September 30 that began to diverge from all the media and social networks mentioned at the beginning of the analysis.

You can understand that a fake passport is shown on the video distributed. For example, “verified” established that the document, which was allegedly issued on April 9, 2014, uses a photograph of Zelenskaya, published on March 20, 2023 site President of Ukraine and in social networks (Facebook* And Instagram*) His wife. The picture was posted in notes on the work of the Ukrainian Center, created in Vilnius on the initiative of the first ladies of Ukraine and Lithuania. At the same time, the photo of Zelenskaya, apparently, was made A little earlier - at the end of February 2023.

In addition, the picture does not correspond requirements, presented to the photo for the passport of the Russian Federation. So, Zelenskaya smiles, although the facial expression should be neutral, and the oval of her face does not occupy 70–80% of the photo area.

A series of passport is noticeable in the video: 20 20. Some Russian and Ukrainian publications, as well as factor, including our French Colleagues, said that the first two digits of the series correspond to the code OKATO The region in which the document was issued, and the second two are the year of issuance. In fact, this is not entirely true.

The number 20 really corresponds to the code of the Voronezh region, although Zelenskaya allegedly received the passport in the Crimea. According to the site "Voronezh notebook", The local police denied the issuance of such a document:" The form with this series and number in the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the Voronezh region was not received, the specified document was not issued. " However, in rare cases, the first two digits of a passport series can Do not match with the code of the region. For example, such It happened Just when the passport of the Russian Federation was massively issued to the residents of Crimea. The Republic of Crimea in the Russian codification corresponds to code 35, while on the network you can find passports of the residents of the peninsula with the code 33 (Kirov region), 54 (Oryol region) or 39 (There is no such code in OKATO).

The second two digits of the series are related to the year when the passport form was printed, but also Not obliged coincide with the date of its receipt. On the blog of HFLabs, which is analyzing the client databases, bring The following statistics: “We studied 100 million passports and found a rule: in 98.5% of the documents, the date of issuance falls into the interval from the“ Year of the Printing of the Blanca - 5 years ”to the“ year of printing form + 3 years ””. Such a discrepancy is obtained as a result of different pace issuance of passports in different regions of Russia, and also associated with features work "Goznak".

The second page also states that the passport was issued the “Department of the Federal Migration Service of Russia in the Republic of Crimea in the Central District of Simferopol”, although the word “republic” should be in the dative case - “republic”. The word "department" Maybe Stand both in the nominative and in the creative case (“department”). In addition, Ukrainian publications Reportthat in the spring of 2014, in the column on the authority of issuing a passport in the case of the Crimeans, they simply wrote a “federal migration service”, which confirmed numerous photos.

However, the largest accumulation of errors and inconsistencies in the fake passport of Zelenskaya are on the third page in machine -readable line:

1. The surname is encoded as Zelenskaia, although Must be written by Zelenska8;
2. Name and patronymic are divided by two signs-filler (<<), although should separate one (<);
3. Patronymic is encoded as vlodymyrovna, although Must be written by vladimirovna. Latin letter y corresponds Russian letter "s";
4. The second line begins this: 202020556675. According to rules First, the first three digits of the series and six digits of the passport number are entered into the code, and then the control number (x) is placed, that is, it should be like this: 202556675x;
5. Then the number of 100,000 follows in the fake, although in this part of the code indicated Data on the date of birth of the owner of the passport in the GGMMDD format (zeros are placed if the day and/or a month of birth are not known). In the case of Zelenskaya, it should be like this: 780206;
6. After another control number indicated Paul of the passport owner: F-female, m-male (which for some reason is marked in a fake). 

It is noteworthy that some Russian media and bloggers who have previously spread fakes many times, or Updated their materials, or reported inaccurate information regarding the Russian passport of Zelenskaya in certain publications (for example, Brief). So, publications Eadaily And "Ukraine.ru"In their initial notes they added that" the information turned out to be false ", and in the Telegram channel of the TV presenter Ruslan Ostashko (111,000 views) reported that Zelenskaya supposedly “quickly refuted the video” and that she “had to make excuses for a joke about the Russian passport”. At the same time, “verified” no comments from the first lady of Ukraine found. IN "Operation Z”(109,000 views) wrote like this:“ Guys, b *** b, let's try better. Instead of digging a really interesting information on the heads of crests, you make fairy tales. ”

The author of Telegram channel "Sanya in Florida”(362,000 views) wrote about the fake of the following:“ Video of the passport - Rospropaganda and fake. The photo for the passport was taken from Instagram Zelenskaya, the photo was published in 2023. But a unique photo could be with the help of AI (artificial intelligence. - Approx. Ed.) Ground in five minutes. And these, from the FSB, what they did is lazy and dumbasses! ” At the same time, in the summer in the same channel, a photo of the Israeli passport Zelenskaya was posted, which also Disassembled “Tested” and established that it was a similar fake. In that case, there was no refutation from the channel.

Probably, the most extraordinary versions of the appearance of a fake document put forward a blog "And talk?!"In" Zen "(not related to the same YouTube channel of journalist Irina Shikhman **) and the publication"Notebook". The authors of the first believe that Zelenskaya herself ordered the “cheap fake” and deliberately left her in the cache of her Yalta apartment (it is not known exactly where the viral video was removed). In the second case, it is assumed that the fake passport with the help of artificial intelligence created the Russian authorities: “That is, on the video fake? Most likely, yes. However, this does not exclude the fact that the special services of the Russian Federation could withdraw a passport of a Russian citizen Elena Zelenskaya. But due to the complex of reasons, when creating the video, the capabilities of AI, which created abstract digital designations, were used. After all, if someone deliberately prepared a fake to pass it off for a real document, he would take into account inconsistencies. ”

*Russian authorities They think Meta Platforms Inc., which owns social networks Facebook and Instagram, an extremist organization, its activities in Russia are prohibited.

** Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation Brought Journalist Irina Shikhman is on the list of foreign agents.

Photo on the cover: social networks

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