Is it true that children from Russia painted these drawings on the topic of war in Ukraine?

In early May 2024, pictures were spread to Telegram, which captured drawings allegedly prepared by children from an unnamed Russian city. We checked the reliability of such publications.

May 1, 2024 Three photos Published In his Telegram channel, publicist Alexander Nevzorov (502,000 views at the time of writing this analysis). On one of them, the boy looks at the drawing, which depicts a tank with a Russian tricolor, the bodies in the clothing of the colors of the Ukrainian flag and the inscription "There is such a profession - the homeland of ZASHY." In another picture, two girls stand next to the drawing, in which fire is conducted from the tank, and the soldier shoots a person without a military uniform. “Za is our soldiers,” says the signature. Finally, the heroine of the third picture holds a drawing in her hands, on him - a military with a torn leg, a tank and flag of the Russian Federation.

“In the first years of invasion,“ drawing a war ”, the kids of the Russian Federation still sting and modest. Frank cannibalism did not reach. But now everything has changed. <...> Now Russian children are outraged by the fact that Ukraine does not allow itself to destroy and rob, and even resists mass killings and genocide. The departure of children's roofs is recorded and confirmed in many regions. <...> Most likely, what happened is irreversible. The victims of teachers will “follow in the indicated direction”, increasing aggression and hatred of “non -Russian”. It’s too late to regret them: almost all the children of Russia are doomed to be expenditure. Girls will soon become sowing, and boys - firm trench drooping, ”commented on the pictures of the Nevor.

Smaper Telegram channels also distributed these photos, and in the channels Gulag (52,000 views) And "Anton ❌ Hardin"(36,000), published after the Nevzorov post, the selection doubled, to six pictures. In different combinations, these images also appeared in Facebook, X And Instagram.

Viral drawings began to spread, including against the background of reports of patriotic events, which on the eve of May 9 began to be increasingly conducted in Russian educational institutions. So, in mid -April, the publication "Agency" discovered The VKontakte social network has more than 2000 photo reports from classes dedicated to the Day of Unified Actions in memory of the “genocide of the Soviet people” during the Second World War. In these lessons, children were built in the form of a five -pointed star or forced to kneel. After the publication of viral pictures, their “Victory Parades” took place in kindergartens and schools in Tambov, Saransk, Barnaule, Omsk, Yeisk, Bratsk and other cities of the Russian Federation. Similar events demonstrating militarization systems of Russian education, Conducted For several years.

Despite the abundance of publications about actions dedicated to Victory Day or devoted to a special military operation (as they officially call a full -scale invasion of Ukraine), neither Nevzorov, nor other bloggers indicate where exactly the children's drawing competition, during which viral photographs were allegedly taken. Only two works from the photographs are signed, however, these signatures indicate only the names of the authors, but not the number of schools or the name of the cities where they are. It is impossible to set a place (or place) by indirect signs.

“Verified” studied the pictures using the Google reverse search tool. For the first time a selection of nine photographs, including viral, April 30 Published User Instagram with the username @hogfaces. “The competition of children's patriotic drawings was held in one of the Russian schools. Help to choose the winner, ”the signature says to the post.

In the description of the profile, @hogfaces calls himself an artist, and the vast majority of the pictures published by him were obviously created using programs for editing photographs. So, in the morning of May 8, he Placed A photograph with the on the eve of the inauguration of Vladimir Putin, where the President of the Russian Federation was depicted naked. In March, the blogger published a picture in which Putin Buried In an open coffin on a landfill, in February - a photo of a politician whose lap Sitting American publicist Tucker Carlson.

Although in the signature for the selection of pictures from the competition of children's drawings there is no formal confirmation that the images were generated using the neural network, @hogfaces was previously recognized in its use when creating its publications. In response to the comment "What neuron was made?" under post From April 25, the blogger called Midjourney, as well as the Photoshop program. He accompanies his other works by talking hashtags like #caricature And #PutinMEMES.

Thus, viral photographs first appeared in the account, which specializes in the publication of images generated by the neural network and/or processed using a photo editor. The author does not directly indicate that he creates satirical content, but the reliability of the works he posted is not difficult to understand by studying the profile fluently. Information publications, in which the pictures are presented as real are groundless.

Photo on the cover: Telegram screenshot

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