In May 2024, a photograph of unusual street advertising dispersed over the network-Ukrainians are supposedly called to refrain from using battery sex toys and thereby reduce the load on local energy. We checked the reliability of this picture.
Judging by the surrounding landscape, in the sleeping area of the unnamed city, images of a vibrator and dildoi dumplings are visible on a billboard, placed. Next to them is a red cross and a green checkmark, respectively. The Ukrainian -language inscription at the top of the poster says: "The energy system of Ukraine depends on everyone." Under it is the emblem of the Ukrainian Ministry of Energy.
This photograph received the greatest widespread in Telegram, where it, along with signatures like “Ukrainians, are called to abandon vibrators and switch to rubber pussy. All because of the lack of electricity ”shared channels such as"KB +18"(309,000 views at the time of writing this analysis),"Uncle Glory"(183 000),"Eggplant"(146 000),"Bottle"(143,000) and"Sheikh Tamir"(127 000).
During a full -scale invasion, the Russian army regularly inflicts massive blows to the facilities of Ukrainian energy infrastructure, causing them serious damage. The largest such attack recently It happened March 22, 2024, when rockets and drones reached the targets at once in nine Ukrainian regions, and the Dnieper hydroelectric power station suspended their work. As of the end of May 2024 graphs The shutdown of light acted throughout Ukraine.
“Verified” could not be found on Ukrainian news sites or in large Ukrainian telegram channels reports about the appearance of a billboard from a viral photograph in one of the cities of the country. In addition, in pro -Russian sources there is the same frame with this social advertising, although, judging by the nearby high -rise buildings, thousands of people should have seen it.
In the background of the picture you can notice another billboard.
It depicts the company logo ""Scarbitsia» - pawnshopes with branches throughout Ukraine. On the official website of the network there is a list of these branches with photographs of the facade part of each. A similar entrance group with three air conditioners located under another can be seen in a viral picture.
On the website "Scarbits" indicatedthat this pawnshop is located in Kyiv on Academician Zabolotnaya Street, 20a.
"Verified" studied this location using the service Google Street View. It turned out that a viral picture is an edited screenshot of a panorama placed there: even the location of cars, pedestrians and potholes on the roads coincides. On a billboard, captured, as indicated, back in 2015, it is not at all a call to abandon vibrators, but an advertisement for the Ukrainian music channel M2. It is noteworthy that the creators of the fake not only replaced the poster, but also carefully finished the grass before the support.
According to the TGSTAT service, the earliest publication with this image appeared in the Telegram channel "Shaman Rahu"May 21 at 14:48 Moscow time. This resource repeatedly Facing V parsing “Tested” as a source of inaccurate information about events in Ukraine.
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