At the end of January 2024, the posts diverged on social networks that the President of Ukraine announced the country's readiness to become a new American state. The proof is the screenshot of the news on the Ukrainian site. We checked whether Zelensky spoke with such an initiative.
In January 2024, the United States exacerbation of the migration crisis, in connection with which the governor of Texas Republican Greg Ebbot Installed On the border with Mexico within the state, barbed wire. The US Supreme Court recognized the decision of the Abbot by unreasonable and Decided remove barriers, but a politician declaredthat “this is not the end” and that he will continue to protect the boundaries. The heads of another 25 states supported the position of the leadership of Texas in disagreements with the federal government on the measures of counteracting illegal immigration. Many Russian Propagandists And Z-bloggers, illuminating these events, announced the new civil war that was brewing in the United States.
Against this background, in Russian-speaking Telegram channels, since January 26, the screenshot of notes on the website of the Ukrainian news program “TSN” with the heading: “Evening Zelensky:“ Ukraine is ready to join the United States instead of Texas ”began to be distributed. According to the TGSTAT service, at the time of writing this analysis of a total of 160 posts on this topic, about 1.6 million views were gained in Telegram. Similar publications posted channels "Uncle Glory"(184,000 views),"Putin in Telegram"(174 000), Voblya (152 000), "Bullet"(131 000),"From the scene"(67 000), Tezkor Yangiliklar (55,000, post in Uzbek), ""Communication unit"(50,000),"Russia 2.0"(49,000), Nina Vatt (43,000), "Conflict"(41 000),"Uncle Glory in Telegram"(40,000),"The thoughts of Okhlobystin"(31 000),"Hammer"(29,000) and others. In addition, the television channels told about this alleged statement of the President of Ukraine"Tsargrad" And "360", Edition"Truth.ru" And other News sitesas well as numerous publics and users "VKontakte".
The viral screenshot states that the news was published on the TSN website at 19:43 Kyiv time on January 26 and was based on the daily evening circulation of Zelensky. At the same time, the president in his Telegram channel Published This appeal is only at 20:54, on Official website - at 21:01, in social networks X - At 21:50. In the original video on Zelensky, another sweatshirt is put on (instead of the Ukrainian flag, the country's emblem is depicted on it), and the video was shot from another point in the politician office.
"Checked" Not found The news with the heading “Ukraine is ready to join the United States instead of Texas” on the TSN website. The screenshot indicates the name of the author - Maxim Zhuravel, but on page this journalist is not such a note for January 26, 2024 (it is absent in Copies Pages, archivated in the evening of the same day). At the same time, we found material With the same photo on the cover and a similar headline: "Zelensky's evening appeal: what the president said important." This article was posted on the site a day earlier, but the publication time (19:43) coincides with what is indicated in the viral image. In the original text, a retelling of the president of January 25 was presented, where he He said About the fighters of the National Guard of Ukraine and a professional holiday with the Cybers of the SBU. Zelensky did not make statements about hypothetical accession to the United States. As for the photograph of the Ukrainian president, which accompanies the news, this Stop frame his evening appeal according to the results of January 13: then Zelensky also He said Texas did not mention the National Guard.
“Verified” could not find a statement that Ukraine is ready and/or seeks to join the United States instead of Texas, in other authoritative Ukrainian media, as well as on site the president of the country and in his official accounts in social networks.
The earliest publication with a fake screenshot among those that discovered "verified" appeared on January 26 at 20:28 Moscow time in the Telegram channel "EYE."(12,000 views). It is noteworthy that posts on this subject were published earlier, but were satirical. For example, on the same day at 16:07 a channel with fictional news "CDUM"(168,000 views) wrote:" Zelensky said that Ukraine is ready to take the place of Texas as part of the United States. " A little later, at 17:30, the pro -Kremlin channel Mash (851,000 views) reported About the same statement by the President of Ukraine - it fell into a selection of news from the United States (that all these news were invented, it was possible to learn from a hidden mark “specifically for readers with serious persons - this is all a joke”). Subsequently, the post is Mash distributed other authors, and Not all Of these, they made a clarification of the humorous nature of the text. In addition, similar posts without a margin of joke appeared in the channel "Talipov 𝐎𝐧𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞"(57,000 views), which is previously repeatedly distributed fakes, and in the channel "Bulletin of Shevtsov"(124,000), where memes are published mixed with real news.
Thus, Zelensky never stated that Ukraine is ready to join the United States instead of Texas, and the screenshot of the record on the TSN website was fabricated. Given the high image quality and a completely matching font, most likely, the attacker changed the title and the date of the real news through the page code code. At the same time, numerous jokes on the same topic that appeared a little earlier could serve as a source of inspiration to create this fake.
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Photo on the cover: website President of Ukraine
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