Is it true that the hero Tiktok Video about the cleaning of the General Garage died in Avdeevka?

In December 2023, the Russian -language segment of the network first went around the video about the Ukrainian soldier, which rejoices to send the territory to the general garage instead of the front, and then the news of its death. We checked whether this news corresponds to reality.

The 19-second video began to spread on the Internet on December 11. On it, a young man in the form of an Armed Forces is pretty dancing with a shovel in front of a garage and draws a “snow angel”. The signature for the video in translated from Ukrainian reads: "I thought I would go to Avdeevka, and went to clean the garage to the general."

A few days later, a mourning photograph flew around the social network, the same young man named Valery Tarashchuk. The viral video from his Tiktok allegedly saw the Ukrainian security forces, found a hero and sent to a real front, where he died suddenly. “The transfer of the young man to the front was not a certain example of justice, because the punishment of the commanders was not reported, but by the act of personal revenge on the part of the disgraced officer using the soldier for personal purposes,” commented on one of the Russian resources.

Media such as "wrote about this case"Russian newspaper","Arguments and facts","The main regional" And "News Tape DPR". The news was distributed by Telegram channels "Pozdnyakov 3.0"(280,000 views at the time of writing this analysis),"Bad news 18+"(245,000),"NE.SAHAR"(244,000),"Explains Readovka"(232 000),"Russia now"(227 000) and others.

It is quite difficult to find information about the deceased military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine by the name of Valery Tarashuk - it is not mentioned on such resources as, for example, “Memory memory platform" And "Ukrainian memorial". “Verified” did not find information about Ukrainian fighters with similar name and surname in open sources. But that was the name of the fictional hero of the Russian Fake The end of November 2023 about the Ukrainian cleaner, allegedly in a fit of lust of a woman who broke the statue in Paris.

In search of a real name of a soldier with a machine gun, a resource can help Search4Facesworking with photographs of people in social networks. He claims that with a probability of 66.79%, we have a 21-year-old user "VKontakte»Stopa Igonin.

Indeed, a native of the Cherkasy region of Ukraine has profiles in Facebook And Instagram with a photograph of weapons in his hands, and in his account Tiktok, where Stepan has more than 8,000 subscribers, it is easy to find two videos - with dancing in front of the garage and with a “snow angel”.

Both videos were published more than a year ago, in December 2022. Unlike the encouraging video, they have no subtitles about the General Garage and Avdeevka - the suburbs of Donetsk, which is the Russian army storms Since October 2023. Moreover, the surroundings on one of video Not like private possessions - rather, this is a military unit within one of the Ukrainian cities.

“Verified” tried to contact Stepan Igonin through one of his accounts. As it turned out, everything is in order with the military. “I was shocked when my friends showed me this news. All that is written there is complete nonsense, I did not clean the garages any generals. No one was looking for me and did not send me to Avdeevka, ”Stepan answered.

According to the TGSTAT service, the first video from Tiktok Igonin with a signature about Avdeevka on December 11 at 13:05 Moscow time was posted by the Prochremleovsky Telegram channel "Halyapin 1.0". Previously "verified" already Cauced This resource in the spread of a fake about Ukrainian military losses, and in both cases, the publication at the time of writing the review was already unavailable. In this case, there are also all signs of conscious misinformation: incorrect signatures are added to last year’s videos, the video defendant is falsely declared dead, and his name was replaced by the name of another false news born in the bowels of Russian propaganda.

Photo on the cover: screenshots from social networks

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