Perhaps crime! How Prochremlin Telegram channel comes up with fakes based on reports of Ukrainian police and prosecutor's office

Over the past two years, “verified” have been sorted out hundreds of fake photos and videos discrediting Ukraine and Ukrainians. Some were produced literally a few clicks, and the days and weeks of work went to prepare others. But in 2024, a new “lazy” type of anti -Ukrainian misinformation was popular, which is not required to create anything but imagination.

Probably, the main common feature of the vast majority of anti -Ukrainian fakes described and disassembled by the authors is “tested”, is a support on changing the stranger or creating their own audiovisual content. Be it false Videos with logos of famous international media, fake photos from graffiti on the streets of European cities or fake covers Foreign satirical magazines - all this is required to create one way or another. Some fakes take very little time (if only you need edit inscription on someone else's picture) and resources (for example, to create fake ads Only a printer will be needed), and additional funds will have to be invested in some fakes (so, to order Videoutings Celebrities at the Cameo service Factory Faces spent several thousand dollars). Sometimes a whole set of methods is used: for fake about biographical film A fake site was created about Vladimir Zelensky, a video from Hollywood stars was ordered, and a page of a non -existent film producer was instituted on the X social network, where fabricated pages of the script and poster were also posted.

However, it also happens that for the generation and viral distribution of a whole layer of fakes, it is enough to take already published photos and videos already, and then, without changing anything in them, add several sentences to the original signature that quite significantly distort reality. In recent months, this method has actively practiced the Telegram channel "Ukrop Fresh".

The channel, which was signed by about 30,000 people, was Created March 12, 2022. His description states that the “editors” consists of residents of the “Zaporizhzhya region of the Russian Federation, temporarily occupied by the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces of the DPR (Slavyansk and Kramatorsk) and the LPR (Russian Federation)”, as well as “Kharkov partisans working with life risk”.

For the first time, Ukropsky Fresh was mentioned in the analysis of “verified” two and a half months after its creation - on May 25, 2022, he acted as the original source as It turned out, fake shots of the signs “Ukrainians are prohibited” on shop windows in the Czech Republic. Subsequently, this channel Published Fake covers magazines, fake Ads And edited Screenshots sites.

Not later than the summer of 2023, “lazy” fakes began to appear in the “Ukrop Freche”, for the creation of which the content specially created in order to disinform. Not all of them became viral, but some nevertheless received millions of views, since they were retold by Russian media and large proxual telegram channels, including the channels of TV presenter Ruslan Ostashko and Blogger Alexander Semchenko, “The World today with Yuri Podolyak”, “Sanya in Florida”, “Ne. Sahar”, “Ukraine.ru” and “Shayikh” Tamir ".

Criminal reports

The earliest “lazy” fake, discovered “verified”, appeared in Ukrop Freche on June 23, 2023. Then the channel reportedthat the commander of the 92nd separate mechanized brigade (OMBR) Pavel Fedosenko brought up a criminal case: the colonel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was allegedly accused of assigning 1.14 million UAH. As part of the investigation, the alleged accomplices were also detained-the ex-director of a private enterprise and Major Vladimir Shinkarenko. A few photos taken in the process were also given in the post. This information, however, did not receive widespread - according to TGSTAT, reposts and retells gained only about 150,000 views.

It turned outthat the authors simply took pictures from the publication that appeared In the morning of the same day on Facebook* of the specialized prosecutor's office of Ukraine in the field of defense of the eastern region. In the report of the department, it really was about losses of 1.14 million UAH due to frauds of contractors. The former director of the Kharkov company and engineer in technical supervision was suspected of taking possession of property during construction in one of the military units in the Kharkov region. It was also reported about another suspect - the former deputy commander of the unit that approved the acts of the work performed, some of which were not actually carried out. The publication was not announced by the surnames, the number of the military unit and the preventive measure selected for the accused, and Ukrainian factskeepers could not Find in any bases or other sources of open criminal proceedings, where Fedosenko took place as a suspect.

In 2024, Ukropsky Fresh began to produce such fakes much more often, sometimes every other day. For example, January 22 there Wrotethat in the Kharkov region they found the body of an employee of the territorial center of completion (TCC, in modern Ukraine - an analogue of Russian military commissariats), and the murder was allegedly suspected of the father of a mobilized Ukrainian. “That's what Zelensky brought to the population of his country: people are ready to kill the military commissars, just not to go to the front and not die for the interests of the Kyiv regime,” the post said.

This story diverged into other Telegram channels and the media and received millions of views, but again It turned outthat the Ukrop Fresh simply invented a criminal case against the mobilized father. The picture shown in the post as evidence is three days earlier Published The press service of the Kharkov regional prosecutor's office. According to investigators, the murder occurred during the domestic conflict of two comrades who drank alcohol. In their fake, the authors correctly retold some details of what happened, but here is the motive of the criminal and the place of work of the victim - the fruit of their imagination.

January 28 in the same channel toldAs if the “Rivne Police” (probably this referred to the city of Rivne or the Rivne Region) detained the 14th OMBR of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces for the sale of narcotic substances. The serviceman was allegedly arrested only two days after the start of the vacation, and he brought amphetamine from under Kupyansk. “However, you should not think about closing the supply channels for the Armed Forces - for Zelensky’s regime this is an excellent business,” the post says.

Pictures of detention the day before Published Press Service of the police of the Rivne region, and there Not mentionedthat the drug was a military man. The department reported that the operatives detained the 38-year-old resident of the city of Berezno, while the police documented the first operational purchase in early January.

February 23 "Ukropsky Fresh" toldAs if in Kyiv they tried to kill an employee of the TCC. The man allegedly rode a tram when the unknown person on the street threw a brick in his head. “As a result, he has a serious skull injury, he was urgently hospitalized in the hospital. It is noteworthy that in Kyiv public people approve of this act. Some note that it was necessary to throw more brick. This is how much people need to be brought to them to rejoice at the warhead of the military commissar, ”says the Telegram channel.

Day earlier in Kyiv communities, public and blogs, and in fact They wrotethat a brick was thrown into a moving tram. As a result, a man suffered whose place of work or service in no sources is indicated There was no. Moreover, most commentators condemned the hooligan act.

The next day, February 24, the Ukrop Fresh continued the topic and reported About the next crime: allegedly in Kyiv, two mobilized after receiving the summons beat and robbed an employee of the TCC, hitting him with a brick on the head. The post ends with the words: "The detainees are facing a real prison term, which is preferable for them to service in the Armed Forces of Ukraine."

In this case, a genuine video from surveillance cameras and photographs of the detainees, who on the eve, were used Published In social networks, the Kyiv police. According to the press release, the serviceman turned out to be the victims, but it was not specified that he was working in TCC. About the motives of criminals and about the receipt of the summons are also nothing Not said.

March 14 authors of Telegram channel ReportedThat a resident of the village of Malaya Rogan in the Kharkov region was detained for fed the fighters with poisoned food of the 113th separate brigade of territorial defense (Obrtro). The victims of the criminal allegedly became almost a whole platoon: 11 people died, and nine more were taken to intensive care in serious condition. The motive of the man shown in the photo claimed: his relatives died due to shelling of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and his son was sent by force to the front, where he later died.

How It turned out, actually in the picture, published The Kharkov regional prosecutor’s office was captured by a resident of the city of Balakley, who was accused of collaboration for his public statements.

March 26 "Dill Fresh" told The robbery of the bank in Lviv, which was allegedly committed by two fighters of the 103rd Obrtro, who later tried to hide abroad. The motive of their crime was named to return to the front, and four pictures from the scene were given in the post.

The robbery really was - it happened on March 25, and on the same day I wrote about it press service police of the Lviv region. The personalities of men were established - they turned out to be two Lvivov at the age of 31 and 40 years, about their service in the Armed Forces and attempt to cross the border Not reported. Boss Patrol Police Department Evgeny Zhukov He emphasized: “They thought, in the form they were disguised, under a fisherman and a military man. Tunic, cap and sports pants. The army has nothing to do, as well as the skills of disguise. ”

April 1 (and not as a joke) channel toldAs if the Kharkov branch of the SBU detained a woman - she publicly complained about the APU soldier who used drugs in the school building. A photo of the detainee is also given in the post-this is supposedly a 54-year-old director of school No. 38, in which, according to the authors of the publication, fighters were stationed.

FACHECHERS from the Ukrainian project "ґvara Media" found outthat actually director Kharkov Lyceum No. 38 - a man named Alexander Poklonsky. And the picture used by the Ukrop Fresh, two hours earlier Published The press service of the Kharkov regional prosecutor's office. From the message of the department it follows that the photo captures a 54-year-old employee of the kindergarten, who, according to the investigation, transferred the Russian military information about the Ukrainian army and is now suspected of treason.

Crimes that were not

As follows from the above examples, the authors of the Ukrop Fresh monitor the reports of Ukrainian law enforcement agencies and on the basis of their publications think of stories with the aim of discrediting the Armed Forces of Ukraine and Ukrainians. However, the creators of fakes do not always need reports of real crimes - sometimes they have enough of any records from social networks, and they will add criminal details themselves.

So, on February 25 in the "Ukrop Freche" WroteThat the soldiers of the Armed Forces in Kharkov deceived the second -grader to give them the "last savings." The post said that sappers from the local inter -regional clearance center “processed” the schoolboy Ivan Filenko - they washed the boy’s brains, and he gave them all family savings. At the same time, parents allegedly could not return their money.

This time, a screenshot was based on misinformation post From the ITS_Kharkov account on Instagram*, where it is given photo From the training center of the operational and rescue service of the civil protection of the State Emergencies Ministry of Ukraine. 12 February on the website of the department Wrotethat the second -grader Ivan Filenko visited the center with gifts - with the money that he put off for a long time, the boy bought the necessary equipment and handed it to the sappers. How specified Ukrainian journalists, a schoolboy acquired gloves, which are noticeable in the photo. Ivan's parents said that they were present at the presentation of gifts, and her mother in a commentary for “ґvar Media” noted that the authors of the “Ukrop Fresh” work well.

March 25 this channel told A similar story about how the affiliatory officers from the 25th separate airborne Airborne Brigade of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces by fraud was taken by all savings from the 89-year-old Maria Betz. The woman is claimed to be the mother of a 55-year-old mobilized sergeant who died near Kupyansk. She allegedly called a man who introduced himself as the commander of her deceased son and wanted to discuss the transfer of the “grave” payments to the needs of the brigade. Having taken possession of money, scammers, stated, disappeared, and the woman turned to the police.

As in the case of a student, the authors of Fake invented part of the story. It turned outthat March 18 on Facebook about Betz wrote Volunteer Vasily Ezhak. According to him, the 89-year-old Ukrainian herself contacted him and offered to transfer the money that she received from the state after the death of her son. In the city council at the same time emphasizedthat a woman did not complain about fraud.

April 5 Channel authors Shared The “tragic story of a resident of Dergachi” by Natalia Ostro-Belove, who was allegedly beaten by the fighters of the 113th Obrtro. According to the post, this woman is a disabled person of group II since childhood, she has problems with the knee joint. When Service went for humanitarian aid, the soldiers allegedly began to mock her at the point of delivery of it: “It came to violence, as a result of which she was very much hit on the sore knee.” It is reported that after the attack of the woman, severe pain began, and according to the results of the inspection, she needs endoprosthetics of the joint.

As for the state of health of the heroine of the history "Ukropsky Fresh" did not lie, but he completely invented the fact of beating (both military and civil). The woman herself told Journalists "ґvara Media". According to her, in social networks she often converts For help to indifferent citizens, attaching their photos and documents to the posts, which the attackers took advantage of. For example, such a publication appeared in one of the local publics two days before the recording in the Ukropsky Freche.

Reports of official departments

It will be a mistake to think that all such “lazy” fakes are about murders, robberies, theft and drug trafficking. Sometimes the authors of the Ukrop Fresh publish fictions that are in no way related to crime, but still based on the materials of the press services of various Ukrainian departments.

For example, according to post From March 26, which then spread in the media and other channels, having gained millions of views, in the city of Lozovaya, Kharkov region, several women told the authorities about their fingers to be sent to the Ukrainian army. As a result, the head of the local TCC allegedly awarded these wives with diplomas, and a few days later one of those mobilized men as reported, died.

In fact in Lozova Awarded Women and men who participated in the measures to preserve the memory of the fallen Ukrainian soldiers, and the ceremony was not held by the military commissar, but the mayor of Lozova. The pictures used by the Ukrop Fresh as evidence fell into a photo report, which was published on March 25 site cities and on the official page on Facebook.

March 30 in Telegram channel Published The video of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense, which was equipped with a signature: "Ukraine is preparing for war with Poland: trenches are digging in the west of the country." It is clarified that the construction of defensive structures takes place in the Volyn region, and the APU soldiers are allegedly "in some bewilderment, trying to find logic in the construction of fortifications on the border with the EU."

Original video appeared On the resources of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine two days earlier, March 28. The authors of the video, as found out FACECHERS, captured fortification on another border - the fact is that the Volyn region Border With Poland in the west and with Belarus in the north. By words The heads of the regional administration of Yuri Nurseliko, work on increasing defense capability goes just along the Belarusian-Ukrainian border.

The next day, March 31, "Ukrop Fresh" toldthat the Kharkov authorities create new units of territorial defense from adolescents and women. It was reported that residents of the northern regions of the region were allegedly ordered to come to a special training center, where they would receive basic military training under the leadership of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

It turned outthat the photos attached to the post are taken from publications The 150th Training Center of the Command of the Forces of the TRU Armed Forces of March 28. Nothing was said about the new Teroborne of the Kharkovshchina or another Ukrainian region. It was about the recruitment of recruits to the school of basic combined arms training on a general selection, that is, the photo shows volunteers who signed up through TCC, and these are adult men and women, and not adolescents. According to Ukrainian journalists who who They called In the training center, only adults are trained there.

The creation of such fakes requires minimal costs. The authors do not need to generate original content or invent a narrative from scratch - just take photos and videos and add several proposals about the Ukrainian military to the real story.

Having analyzed both the above examples and many other fabricated messages of the Ukrop Fresh, you can formulate the basic narratives of this channel:

• Many civilians of Ukraine are distrustful and contempt with the fighters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and are afraid of them;
• Ukrainian soldiers often beat and rob their fellow citizens, and many military use drugs;
• Of all the military, the most Ukrainians hate TCC employees most of all, who are often killed right on the streets.

Of course, from time to time in Ukraine there are scandals that are associated with crimes committed by the military - about them reports Ukrainian press. Moreover, the military themselves periodically They complain On the negative attitude of Ukrainians towards the employees of the TCC, however, the Ukrop Fresh hyperbolizes social moods through its fakes.

In this text, in addition to its own analysis, the materials of the factory projects used to “verify” ”Ґvara Medіa" And "VOKS Ukrainian".

*Russian authorities They think Meta Platforms Inc., which owns social networks Facebook and Instagram, an extremist organization, its activities in Russia are prohibited.

Photo on the cover: Processed frame of the series "Streets of Broken Lights" / Socials