At the end of May 2024, a video spread in Telegram channels, which states the Belgian parliamentarians met the appearance of the Ukrainian president with a laugh. We decided to check whether this was actually happening.
The roller lasting 14 seconds is decorated as a fragment of the air of the France 24 television channel. At the beginning, Vladimir Zelensky is shown, accompanied by the Prime Minister of Belgium Alexander de Kro, then the laughing men sitting in the hall, at the end, a leader in the studio, who talks about the meeting of two leaders. In the posts of a number of Telegram channels, it is argued that the second part of the video depicts Belgian deputies who so responded to Zelensky’s requests to provide Ukraine with military assistance. This, in particular, was reported by channels Voblya (145,000 views at the time of writing this analysis), "Sheikh Tamir"(140 000) and"Kostyan Cat - Official Channel"(86 000).
The meeting of Zelensky and de Kro was held on May 28 in Brussels. On it, the President of Ukraine and the Prime Minister of Belgium signed a bilateral agreement About cooperation in the field of security, in which, in particular, they recorded the volume of future military assistance to Kyiv. So, Belgium I pledged Until 2028 to transfer to Ukraine 30 F-16 fighters, as well as other military equipment and equipment. After the meeting of the two leaders, a press conference was held.
In the lower right corner, the video is the logo of the French television channel France 24, which also works in English. The channel regularly publishes short videos and excerpts of its broadcasts in YouTube, however, the press conference of Zelensky and de Kro he Not broadcast. There are no notes about this event and among English -speaking news on site France 24.
The video can be divided into three fragments: Zelensky and de Kro, laughing men and leading in the studio, leaving from a certain hall.
The first fragment is really the last seconds of broadcasting a press conference, which was on May 28 in Brussels. In particular, on YouTube event Broadcast Reuters agency.
The broadcast breaks on this. But in the viral video, laughing men in costumes are shown further: neither in the video Reuters, nor on the frames of the live broadcast in Facebook The President of Ukraine is not them. It was not possible to establish the origin of this fragment of the viral video “verified”.
Since the quality of the video is low, unequivocally determined who is depicted on it is difficult. However, analysis of screenshots using Pimeyes And other instruments for recognizing people shows that, most likely, three laughing men are not deputies or even Belgians.
Presumably, a person on the left is a media manager Gerard TimmerUntil March 2024, he headed the Netherlands public television and radio company NOS. A man with long hair sitting behind him is Timmer's predecessor in this post Jan de Jongwho, after leaving the media, managed the Feyenoord football club, and then the entire Eredivisi, the highest league of the Dutch championship. He folded his hands in the center of the frame Lennart van der Meolen - Another Dutch media manager, until 2023 he led the local public broadcaster VPRO.
The third part of the video is really a fragment of the air of France 24. In the frame the host of the TV channel Gavin Lee Talks about the meeting of Zelensky and de Cro. However, the full version video The May of 2023 dates back, and it was about a joint press conference of three politicians: in addition to Zelensky and de Kro, the Prime Minister of the Netherlands Mark Rutte answered the questions of journalists after negotiations in the Hague. Lee directly mentions him on a viral video (but the creators of the mounted video, this, apparently, was not embarrassed).
In the viral video, the titer was replaced: instead of “Zelensky in The Hague”, the inscription “Zelensky in Brussels” appeared on it. At the same time, the authors of the viral video could not achieve a complete similarity: the font is slightly different, which can be seen in the example of the letter R.
The earliest post with this video, which “verified” was found using the TGSTAT service, is an entry in the Telegram channel ”Kryminforum 🇿 🇴 🇻", Published on May 28 at 16:04 Moscow time. Fake videos with world media logos, including and France 24, more than once appeared In the analysis "verified".
Thus, a video with Belgian deputies allegedly laughing at Zelensky was collected from several other videos, including the broadcast of 2023 about the trip of the Ukrainian president to the Netherlands.
Photo on the cover: Office of the President of Ukraine
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