Is it true that such posters with Putin are hung in the gas sector?

In October 2023, a photograph of posters, allegedly taken in the gas sector, spread on the Internet, which depicts among others Russian President Vladimir Putin. We checked the authenticity of this picture.

The photo became viral against the background of the largest exacerbation of the Arab-Israeli conflict over the past decades. October 7 terrorist group Hamas applied Blows on Israel from the Gaza sector, the militants attacked several military bases, entered Israeli settlements and captured hostages. In response to the defense forces of Israel (IDF), they began surgery to protect the country, and also began to apply air strikes on the gas sector. At the time of writing this analysis It is known About at least 1360 dead as a result of hostilities.

The picture shows a building decorated with four posters with inscriptions in Arabic. The posters are captured by Russian President Vladimir Putin, President of Syria Bashar Assad, the highest leader of Iran Ayatollah Ali Hamenie and the leader of the Hesbollah Islamist movement Hassan Nasell. At least 4000 Ukrainian- And Russian -speaking Facebook users shared this picture with the signature “Gas Sector. City landscape. " In Telegram, a post with a comment that "these are very popular posters in gas", Placed publicist Alexander Nevzorov (545,000 views at the time of writing this analysis), and the channel "The city of Zhupov"(113,000) accompanied the photograph of the text of the text of the political scientist Abbas Gallamov about the situation in Israel. Some popularity of the photo acquired On VKontakte and social network X (former Twitter).

The earliest publications, claiming that in the photo it was the gas sector, “verified” on the social network X (October 8 at 07:21 Moscow time). A little later, such posts appeared in Telegram (the earliest of the discovered - in the channel "Cleric"On the same day at 14:03). However, this photograph has nothing to do with the current conflict, nor at all. 

Reverse search by photo using Google and Yandex tools allows you to find this picture in 2017 publications at least in Two different angles.

Then users of the Living Journal They wrotethat in East Aleppo Posters appeared with the images of Putin, Assad, Nasrolla and Hameni, and described the posters themselves: “Under the images of Putin and Nasrolla, the signature:“ Thank you from the inhabitants of Aleppo ”. Under the Assad, the signature: "May your victory and glory in Aleppo eternal, about the lion." Under Khamenei, the signature: "Thank you, Sayed Imam Hamenya, from the inhabitants of Aleppo". " Despite the low quality of the photo, the inscription in Arabic can really make out the portraits of Putin and Nasrolla: “Thank you from the inhabitants of Aleppo!”

Row sources, in particular the American edition The Hill, report that such posters were placed in Aleppo and in the center of Damascus. All publications were made in January 2017, shortly after from Aleppo were knocked out The troops of the rebels, and the city itself occupied the Syrian armed forces. At that time These Photos were shared by Arabic -language and English -language Twitter users. In particular, on January 2, 2017, a picture of a building with posters Published German newspaper editor Bild Julian Ryopke, indicating that he was made in Aleppo.

Thus, this photograph was taken back in 2017 in Syria, most likely in Aleppo. It has nothing to do with the gas sector and the exacerbation of the Arab-Israeli conflict in October 2023.

Photo on the cover: the picture analyzed in the analysis

Not true

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