In February 2024, information about the unusual form of events was dispersed over the network, the rates on which can supposedly be made on the website of the world's largest bookmaker company. We checked whether this news corresponds to reality.
It is claimed that immediately after statements The Ukrainian command on the withdrawal of units from Avdeevka British bookmaker Betfair began to accept bets on which city of the Armed Forces of Ukraine will be left as follows. Clients are supposedly offered to choose between Zaporozhye, Dnieper, Kherson, Kharkov, Odessa and even Kiev. According to bookmakers, the most likely is the capture of Zaporozhye and Kherson, the least likely to Kyiv. The news was accompanied by a corresponding screenshot.
A few days later, the story received continuation - The bet on Betfair allegedly made Nikolai Terekhov, the son of the mayor of Kharkov Igor Terekhov. And he put it as if to surrender to his city.
Information about this was distributed by publications such as "News of Siberia","Kherson news feed"And the TV channel"Tsargrad". The news was significant in Telegram thanks to the channels "Sheikh Tamir"(170,000 views at the time of writing this analysis),"Notepad Russia 18+"(162 000),"Oleg Tsarev"(115 000),"Cat Kostyan"(106 000), Gura Anton (86,000), "Ramzai"(79,000) and"Russian format"(59,000).
On the night of February 17, 2024, Ukrainian troops after many months of battles left Avdeevka is a city in the immediate vicinity of Donetsk, which from the very beginning of a full -scale Russian invasion became the goal of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. Among the reasons for withdrawal in Ukraine called Both the numerical and technical superiority of the Russian army, and delays with the supply of weapons from the Western countries.
The first thing that catches your eye is the media and Telegram channels spread the screenshot for some reason the Swedish version of the Betfair site. Indeed, there is a subsection of “Politics”, where you can bet on different political events, mainly the results of the upcoming elections.
Lists of screenshots in many respects coincide in many ways, but on the site of the UKRaine item - Russia’s Next Goal (“Ukraine is the next goal of Russia”), this site indicates the US - Joe Manchin Special. Users are offered to put the senator from Western Virginia Joe for a possible re -election Manchina On your post in 2024.
The right side of the menu looks even strange. The subtitle indicates the total number of options (that is, Ukrainian cities for which bets are accepted) - 124. However, only six of them are presented.
Apparently, the basis for the edited screenshot was a page with bets on the winner in the election of the US president. There are just 124 options, and even the coefficients of the upper six applicants partially coincide (the rest, most likely, differ due to the difference in time between creating a screenshot and writing this analysis).
Outside of Russian and pro -Russian network resources, the screenshot did not spread. According to the TGSTAT service, the earliest message with it appeared on Telegram on February 19 at 09:48 Moscow time in the channel "Tsibulya UA"(3100 views) with a hashtag #mocking, and the channel" was the first large source of its distribution after 25 minutes "Ukrop Fresh"(22,000 views at 375 reposts). He More than once It turned out primary source fake information about the war in Ukraine.
As for the news about Nikolai Terekhov, it was first placed on February 20 at 12:02 in the satirical Telegram channel "The empire is very evil". Messages from this resource repeatedly Accepted Users for a clean coin and distributed on the Internet under the guise of real ones.
Thus, on the Betfair website it is impossible to bet on any event related to the war in Ukraine. The screenshot spread over the network has all the signs of editing. Information about the rate made by the son of the Kharkov mayor also does not correspond to reality - this is invented news. In addition, in the second case, it is incorrect ApprovedAs if three adult sons Terekhov live in the UK. In fact, in June 2023, if believe The official himself, only his middle son lived abroad, while the elder was engaged in volunteering in his homeland, and the youngest (then the minor) graduated from the school in Ukraine.
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