In early April 2024, a video was distributed in social networks, on which it was filmed as a wild animal attacks a man. The authors of the pro -Khremlin channels claim that what happened happened in the west of Ukraine, and see hidden meanings in what is happening. We checked what kind of video it was and where it was shot.
The viral video lasts a little less than two minutes. First, the boar falls on the man on the ground, and then fights him and tramples, tearing his clothes on the victim. Around the middle of the video, the victim managed to rise and find a stick, with the help of which in the end he was able to fight off the beast. The video signatures report that the incident occurred in Western Ukraine. The authors of some publications clarify that we are talking about Khmelnitsky areas, others call the place of action directly the city Khmelnitsky Or Khmelnitsky district.
According to the TGSTAT service, at the time of writing this analysis, more than 130 posts with this video were posted in Telegram, in total they scored about 1.7 million views. Some authors They wrotethat the attack of a boar is a "revenge for Belgorod", while others They called it The animal with a teskashny werewolf (TCC - a territorial center of completion, analogue of the military enlistment offices in Ukraine). Similar publications appeared in the channels "Russia now"(266,000 views),"Uncle Glory"(218 000), Voblya (175,000), "Sheikh Tamir"(141 000),"Gossip"(109,000),"Alexander Semchenko"(108 000),"Forbidden"(100,000),"Evil journalist"(73,000) and"Gasparyan"(63,000). Channel author "Uncle Max Novosta"(4700) I saw an allegory in the video:“ The pig will impudent and attack a person until a person takes a stick and shows a pig. We are somewhere already at the end of this video. Only our pig simply will not leave. We will fry the pig at the end and eat. ” Similar posts appeared on VKontakte (examples here, here, here And here), social networks X (here, here And here) and "classmates" (one of posts Sicked 280,000 views).
Judging by the inscription in the upper part of the video, the attack of the boar occurred after the afternoon of March 24, 2024. Any identification signs or attractions by which the location could be determined was not captured on the video. In this regard, “verified” took advantage of the reverse search for the screenshot and found that on the same incident on March 27 they reported British And American The editors of the tabloid The Sun.
The materials of these publications gave a video of the same duration as in Telegram channels, but it turned out that in Russian-speaking publications the videos was properly proper. On the version of The Sun, hieroglyphs are noticeable at the entrance to the house, and in the text of the tabloid It is saidthat the boar attacked an elderly man in the Chinese province Sychuan. It is reported that the injured 70-year-old man was taken to the hospital with serious injuries of the back and spine, but now his condition is stable.

It was “verified” that the video from The Sun was also cropped and circumcised. We found the initial version on Newsflare - according to Description, there are a video shot by non-professional operators and available for buying online publications. Complete Record It lasts almost eight minutes, and it turned out that the boar did not leave the house territory, as it might seem to be the end of the viral fragment. At the mark of 04:44 the beast attacked another person, in connection with which the previously attacked man again entered into confrontation with the animal.
Newsflare has clarified that the incident shot a video surveillance camera in a village located in the city district Guanjuan. ReportedThat the boar first attacked an elderly man, and then his niece who came to the rescue.

Secretary of the party department of the village, presented in the description of the video as Mr. Luo, toldthat among the injuries received by a man was the wounds caused by fangs and damage to the lumbar spine, and several ribs were broken due to the fall. According to the official, such attacks of wild boars are unprecedented for the district. Employees of the local forestry department assured that they would take measures to prevent such incidents.
According to TGSTAT, the first post with a viral video and the mention of the Khmelnitsky region appeared on April 3 at 19:59 Moscow time in the Telegram channel "Ukraine news"(10,000 views), and after a few minutes a similar publication was placed in the Ukrainian channel"All -seeing Eye 18+”(92,000 views; the post was removed after almost two hours).
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