Did the BBC report that he was $ 53 million for refusing political ambitions?

In March 2024, a video allegedly published by the British public broadcaster and dedicated to unknown details of the resignation of the Commander -in -Chief of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine spread. We checked the authenticity of this video.

In English -language video lasting 1 min. 15 sec. It is reported that after the resignation from the post of Armed Forces commander Valery Zaluzhny received $ 53 million in exchange for non -participation in the struggle for the post of president of Ukraine. The video is allegedly released by BBC, and its authors refer to the investigation of the Bellingcat international project.

For example, they told about this news, “Russian newspaper","Arguments and facts","Komsomolskaya Truth", TV channel"Tsargrad" And URA.RU. In Telegram, channels distributed video Colonelcassad (267,000 views at the time of writing this analysis), "Uncle Glory"(276 000),"Zlaya Prof"(159 000), Voblya (145,000), "Ukraine.ru"(133,000) and others.

At the end of 2023, the media began to appear in the media about the conflict between the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky and the Commander -in -Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny. For some data, Zelensky was irritated by articles and interviews of Zaluzhny, in which he announced a dead end at the front and transition to a positional war. February 8 President Sent the military leader is resigned, a month later he was Saluzhny appointed The ambassador of Ukraine to the UK. According to the theory popular in the pro -Kremlin media (but not confirmed), so Zelensky got rid of a potential competitor in the struggle for the post of head of state.

In no publication with a viral video from the BBC there is a direct link to the source. "Verified" studied the official resources of the British media corporation: website and accounts in social networks (Facebook, X, YouTube) - and did not find a video there about a secret reward for the plug. Since the material refers to the information that the international group allegedly obtained Bellingcat, we also studied her resources -There is no such investigation in the text or in any other format there.

Questions are also raised by the presentation of material in the publication. In short vertical videos released by BBC V their own social networks, there are almost no subtitles, and the news is voiced by an announcer or a newsmaker. In a viral video, on the contrary, the main theses are given in textual form against the background of video cutting and a sound path that has nothing to do with it

On March 9, the founder of Bellingcat Eliot Higgins published tweet, to which he attached a viral video about the curtain with the following comment: “Another fake video Bellingcat - BBC appeared. I really don’t understand who this is actually being done for, because none of them received any support, even in a frantically pro -Russian circles. ” The next day is a similar refutation Placed BBC journalist Shayan Sardarizade.

Indeed, this is far from the first material in which false (or unverified) information is submitted as detected Bellingcat and the common BBC. "Checked" It wrote About a series of such fake videos, and all of them were connected with Ukraine. Another characteristic feature of these videos - their distribution began on Russian or pro -Russian resources. In this case, it was a Telegram channel "Sheikh Tamir", Who published a video on March 9 at 14:05 Moscow time (157,000 views, 1,400 reposts). "Tested" and other facts repeatedly Cauced This channel in the spread of inaccurate information is usually about events related to Ukraine.

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