Is the audio recording genuine, on which Vladimir Zelensky roughly criticizes the leaders of the United States, Germany and Poland?

In December 2023, a private conversation of two people represented as the President of Ukraine and his wife began to spread over the network. We checked whether such an attribution is correct.

On the audio person who reminds Zelensky, he reports that he had just talked with the US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and learned about the strong concern of President Biden levels of corruption in Ukraine. Biden allegedly even threatens to replace Zelensky with someone else if the appropriate measures are not taken. This is outraged by the man, because, according to him, "without corruption, the whole administration would simply fall apart." Zelensky is extremely dissatisfied with the rate of supply of weapons to Ukraine and the lack of clarity about Ukraine’s entry into the European Union. The record is accompanied by obscene expressions to the American president, German Prime Minister Olaf Sholts, President of Poland Andrzej Duda and Prime Minister Mateusz Moravetsky. Periodically interlocutor (it is assumed that this is the first lady of Ukraine Elena Zelenskaya) reacts with perplexing replicas. “In the coffin I saw such allies” - this is how the key phrase of the main hero of the recording sounds. In many publications, the alleged source of the merged media file is also indicated - a certain edition of The Intel drop.

This was written by Russian -speaking publications as "Podolyaka","Capital" And "Kyiv news tape". Record gained great popularity in social networks - ""VKontakte" X, and especially in Telegram, where it was distributed, in particular, channels "Russia now"(244,000 views at the time of writing of the analysis),"Sheikh Tamir"(191 000),"Putin in Telegram"(168 000),"Scott Ritter in Telegram"(90 000).

The issue of military and financial assistance to the West Ukraine is one of the most discussed topics related to this country. In December 2023, American authorities warnedthat the possibilities are almost exhausted and the next package will be the last if the congress does not approve additional expenses. At the same time, the President of Ukraine Zelensky periodically criticizes both overseas colleagues for delaying with the help of and European - for obstacles in the issue of the country's entry into the EU.

Indeed, the discussed audio recording with decryption for the first time appeared On the network on December 6, on the website of The Intel Drop. “Given the fall of it (Zelensky. - Approx. Ed.) Popularity both among the Western allies and among the leadership of the Ukrainian army, the information leak could be carried out by both Ukrainian and Western intelligence services,” the authors of the article say, without calling a specific source. Such a pass is quite in the spirit of The Intel Drop - this is the publication, created In September 2022 and registered in the Netherlands, he conducted one -way propaganda and repeatedly published inaccurate information on the topic of war in Ukraine. In particular, in the spring it reported about the Russian strike on the secret bunker NATO in the Lviv region, and completely recently The video allegedly proved the connection of the Elena Zelenskaya fund with the sale of children. Both cases were disassembled “verified” and received the verdicts of “fake”.

The main interest is the audio recording itself in question. Throughout its length, Vladimir Zelensky is supposedly speaks in spoken, constantly moving from Ukrainian into Russian and vice versa, and he pronounces Ukrainian words with a strong Russian accent (“Zakіnchiv”, “Plamiґ”, “Fatherland”, “Reason”). The emphasis of the alleged Elena Zelenskaya is even more noticeable - she seems to not know the Ukrainian language at all. In real life and President, And The first lady Ukraine is sufficiently speak their native language and do not experience such problems.

We cannot reliably know what the American leadership think about the level of corruption in Ukraine, but the European Commission has more recently celebrated The relative successes of the country in the fight against this problem.

December 12 on a viral recording reacted And at the Center for Strategic Communications and Information Security at the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine. The statement of this organization reads: “The audio recording of the conversation between Vladimir Zelensky and his wife Elena is Fakeova. This is the record of actors. Both actors have a strong Russian accent, and their pronunciation is atypical and not similar to the temperament of Zelensky speech. Faceheels are not disdained by the creation and use of false records to disseminate misinformation about the current government in Ukraine. Their goal is to quarrel world leaders and achieve the abolition of the financial and military support of Kyiv. ”

Thus, there is not a single fact confirming the authenticity of the audio recording of the conversation of the four Zelensky. It was distributed by the site, known for its anti -Ukrainian fakes, the conversation does not correspond to the manner of the speech of the spouses, and the Ukrainian state structure issued a refutation.

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