Is it true that in the United States at the Bowling tournament, advertising was called calling to stop financing Ukraine?

In March 2024, the Telegram transformed excerpt for the broadcast of the Bowling tournament in the United States, where the inscription “Stop Funding Ukraine” can be seen on the advertising screen. We checked the authenticity of this video.

March 11, 2024 in dozens of Russian-language Telegram channels appeared fragment Translation of the Bowling tournament in the USA. During the athlete preparation for a throw on an advertising screen located along the path, the phrase “Stop Funding Ukraine” was shown (“Stop financing Ukraine” - English) and the address of the US Republican Party website. In Telegram, the video was distributed with the signature: “Republicans violently urge to stop financing Ukraine and purchase advertising for this. At the Bowling tournament in the United States, an advertisement appeared with the words "Stop financing Ukraine" and a link to the official website of the Republicans. " According to the TGSTAT service, at the time of writing this analysis, posts with the video scored almost half a million views. Video published channels such as "Sheikh Tamir"(135,000 views),"Military observer"(45,000),"Open Ukraine"(36,000),""Special operation Z" | Yuri Podolyaka+"(32,000) and others. Also, some shared this video Media and users of social networks "VKontakte" And X.

The day before the appearance of this video in Telegram Foreign And the Russian media Reportedthat, according to the prime minister of Hungary, Viktor Orban, in the event of a victory in the election of the US President, the most likely candidate from Republicans Donald Trump “will not give Ukraine to the Center”. The Hungarian prime minister made these statements after a meeting with Trump at his estate in Florida. Ex-president of the United States and earlier He saidthat in case of victory in the presidential election, it plans to force Kyiv to negotiate with Moscow under the threat of reducing military assistance to Ukraine.

Judging by the comments under posts in Telegram, many users had no doubt about the reliability of advertising allegedly placed by the Republicans at the Bowling tournament. Nevertheless, “verified” managed to find the original Translation recording that tournament. Match between Sam Kuli and Kyle corpse took place May 16, 2021 as part of the Champions Tournament of the Association of Professional Bowler. Instead of the inscription on the financing of Ukraine on the screen showed an advertisement for the American brand Manscaped.

Stop frame of the original broadcast (left) and fake video (right)

The earliest of the “verified” publications found with edited video appeared on March 11, 2024 at 11:54 Moscow time in the Telegram channel "Sheikh Tamir". We are more than once refuted Fakes common by this channel. For example, in January 2024 "Sheikh Tamir" He wrotethat the call to abandon the financial support of Ukraine allegedly appeared on the screens at the concert of the Moby musician, however, in that case, the video turned out to be a fake.

Thus, the video that was dispersed in Telegram is a fake created on the basis of the broadcast of 2021. The words "Stop Funding Ukraine" on the video were superimposed on top of the logo of the American brand Manscaped using a video editor.

Photo on the cover: Telegram

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  3. Is it true that the West spent more than $ 150 billion to the aid of Ukraine, while allocating the poorest countries about $ 60 billion?

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