In November 2023, information diverged on the Internet that instead of a dismantled Kyiv monument to the poet would be installed with a monument with the presidents of the United States and Ukraine entitled “Partners Forever”. We decided to check if such news corresponds to reality.

Some Russian informational information wrote about the monument with Biden and Zelensky, which supposedly erected on the site of the previously demolished monument to Pushkin resources. Also, users of social networks shared the news of the plans of the Kyiv authorities to put such a monument ("VKontakte" X) and the platform blog (Livejournal, "Zen"). Many popular Telegram channels published this information: ""Solovyov"(246,000 views at the time of writing this analysis),"Sheikh Tamir"(139 000),"Ivan Utenkov"(106 000), Zergulio (101,000), "Ostashko! Important"(88,000) and others. Most of the posts on this topic attached documents on the installation of the" Partners Forever "monument in Kyiv at 40 Victory Avenue, allegedly prepared on November 5, 2023. They include scans of the drawing and estimates. The installation of the monument, according to the documents, will be engaged in Metinvest Holding, and the cost of the project will be 10 million hryvnias (about 25 million rubles at the rate at the time of writing this analysis).

On November 10, 2023, the Government of Ukraine adopted solution, allowing to dismantle several monuments to Russian and Soviet figures. A few days later, the monument to Pushkin in the Kiev Park named after Ivan Bagryany (until recently - Pushkin Park) was really demolished.

Back in February 2023, in Kyiv, on the alley of courage was installed Memorial plate With the name of the American president - Joe Biden personally attended her opening. However, “verified” could not be found in official sources or authoritative Ukrainian media any reports of intentions to establish a monument in honor of Zelensky’s partnership with his colleague on the site of the monument to Pushkin.

In the documents accompanying many posts with this news, a drawing of the project of the alleged monument and table with calculations of the cost of work is presented. They also have a customer (Ukrainian cultural fund) and the executor of the project (""Metinvest Holding"). “Verified” failed to find any information on the official sites of these organizations about the upcoming installation of “partners forever”. There is no information about a tender for a similar project from the Ukrainian Cultural Fund and on the official site With information about the public procurement of Ukraine Prozorro (and he must appear there, since the fund is a state institution subordinate to the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy). There are no other tenders to create a monument "Partners forever"Or those that are supposed to be installed by address, indicated in the documents under posts.

It should be noted that it was unlikely that the address “Victory Avenue, 40” could appear in the official Ukrainian document prepared on November 5, 2023, since this avenue earlier than nine months earlier Rename In Beresteysky. 40 Beresteysky Prospekt, as evidenced by the data of the site of Ukrainian public procurement, the installation of any monuments also Not ordered.

FACKING PRODUCTION ""VOKS Ukraine»Turned out for the commentary to the representatives of Metinvest Holding. They replied that the company did not attract such a monument to execute the project, and the distributed documents with the seal of the organization and the signature of its financial director were forged. At the same time, both the seal and signature coincide With the present - as our colleagues suggest, they were probably taken from the open access to genuine documents, and then imposed on a fake in the photo editor.

The earliest publication of this news and the documents accompanying it, which “verified” was found, was made in the Telegram channel “Shaman Rahu»November 13, 2023 at 17:16 Moscow time. The post states that the information is allegedly received from the subscriber. This channel has repeatedly become the original source of inaccurate messages about Ukraine, including representing certain materials as sent by caring readers. For example, previously “verified” refuted the news that appeared there that the Orthodox Church of Ukraine creates a new, “more youth” clothes for priests or that one of the Lviv clinics Offers fertilization The biomaterial of the defenders "Azovstal".

Thus, “verified” failed to find any evidence that the project of the monument to Biden and Zelensky “partners forever” has ever been developed in reality. The organization, which supposedly must carry out work on the installation of the monument, denies its involvement in the project. The primary source of the news and the distributed documents containing also factual inaccuracies was the pro-Russian Telegram channel, which was “verified” earlier repeatedly caught the dissemination of misinformation.

Photo on the cover: Office of the President of Ukraine