In February 2024, the media and Telegram channels distributed a record that allegedly captured an excerpt from the news release on French television dedicated to the failed trip of the country's country to Kyiv. We checked how true such publications are.
News notes and posts on social networks refer to the video where a TV showing the air of the France 24 television channel is captured. The host claims that the French President Emmanuel Macron wanted to kill during a visit to Kyiv. At the same time, the organizer of the attempt was named Vladimir Zelensky - the Ukrainian leader allegedly planned to assign responsibility for the attack on Russia in order to draw attention to war and increase the volume of assistance from the West. The plot presents screenshots, from which it supposedly follows that the head of Ukrainian military intelligence Kirill Budanov coordinated preparations for the operation. It is noted that the plan of attempt failed because of the ex-emergency room of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny, who transmitted the information to the French, after which Macron did not fly to Kyiv.
This was reported "Reginum" News.ru, Life, Lenta.ru, OTR and other Russian media. Among officials, the situation was commented by the deputy head of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, ex-president Dmitry Medvedev. The video actively distributed Telegram channels: ""Live broadcast"(617,000 views at the time of writing this analysis),"Pozdnyakov 3.0"(318 000), Ne. Sahar (245,000), "Russia now"(224,000) and others.
Macron's visit to Ukraine was scheduled for February 13-14, the French president had to visit Odessa and Kyiv. However, on February 11, the publication Challenges With reference to a source in the Eliseisian Palace, it was reported that the trip was postponed, in particular, for security reasons. Journalists did not present other details, the presidential administration also did not make additional statements about this.
Viral video began to spread through social networks in the evening of February 13. In the lower right corner of the picture on the TV screen, you can see the logo of the France 24 television channel.
The host of the news in French says: “France President Emmanuel Macron was forced to cancel his visit to Ukraine because of the attempt prepared for him. According to a source close to the National Intelligence Council, this attempt was stopped by the French intelligence services, who managed to intercept the correspondence and calls of participants in the assassination attempt. According to the plan of the Ukrainian authorities, the attack was supposed to once again attract the attention of the world community to Ukraine and allow to increase the supply of weapons to Ukraine. The Ukrainian authorities planned to transfer responsibility for the attack on the President of France on the Russian side and accusing the country of terrorist methods of warfare. ”
Also, the video shows screenshots of personal correspondence in Telegram, but due to low quality, only individual words in Ukrainian can be disassembled.
In the frame - a real host France 24 Julien FunkyHe has been illuminating the news on this television channel since 2007. However, on the official one YouTube channel This media, as in other authoritative French publications, “verified” failed to find reports about the attempt on Macron prepared in Ukraine. Note that in French the news in principle did not spread in any serious sources.
At the beginning of the plot, you can see a subtitle telling about the liberation of two Israeli hostages in Rafakh. This topic on the air of France 24 was really discussed on February 12, only the signature was Decorated A little differently, with a picture from the side.
On the same day, the French media conveyed and other newsFacing the titers, so the basis for the viral video was most likely the real air of France 24. At the same time, obvious bloopers are also striking-so, the articulation of the Funky on the video does not always correspond to speech, and from the 31st to the 33rd second you can see how the teeth of his lower jaw suddenly “jump” to the upper.
All this suggests that the video was created using the neural network. The same conclusion was made on the France 24 TV channel. Answering To the request of the TASS agency, they refuted their attitude to this news. Later, two came out on the channel revealing plot About the video. Among other things, French journalists noticed that the shooting from the TV screen was used - poor quality, in their opinion, was intended to hide traces of intervention. Also the information presented in the video, Refuted Representative of the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Andrei Yusov.
According to the TGSTAT service, the first video in Telegram posted the channel "Cat Kostyan»February 13 at 20:43 Moscow time. "Verified" repeatedly convicted this resource in the spread of fakes related to Ukraine, including those created help neural networks.
Macron Accepted Zelensky in Paris February 16. Presidents signed a bilateral security guarantee agreement that will act before Ukraine join NATO.
Photo on the cover: screenshot from the video
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