In June 2024, a paradoxical phrase spread in social networks, which was allegedly said by the Ukrainian Minister of Energy, German Galushchenko. We decided to check if he said something like that.
According to Telegram channels, the statement of the minister is the answer to the question of ways to prevent a shortage of electricity in Ukraine after the blows of the Russian army. The official’s statement is completely, the bloggers say, it sounded like this: “The fewer power plants we have, the easier it is to protect them. This is a simple logic. ” As an illustration, a screenshot with the logo of the Ukrainian edition “Bukwi” is given. This, in particular, wrote Telegram channels about this "Snow avalanche"(160,000 views at the time of writing this analysis),"Dmitry Vasilet"(155,000) and"Sheikh Tamir"(127 000).
Since the beginning of a full -scale invasion in February 2022, the Russian army regularly strikes the facilities of the Ukrainian energy system. By estimates Kyiv School of Economics, the amount of damage as of April 2024-more than $ 56 billion. June 4 at a government meeting Prime Minister Denis Shmygal reportedthat as a result of Russian missile attacks, the country lost 9.2 GW of electrogeviation - half of the entire power. According to him, 42 power units were destroyed, a little more than a quarter remain in working condition from thermal power plants. In turn, the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky more than once declaredthat Russia successfully attacks energy facilities due to the lack of air defense funds from Ukraine.
In these circumstances, an ambiguous phrase of the Minister of Energy was supposed to cause a scandal primarily in Ukraine. However, in the Ukrainian media this quote could not be found, as well as at website of the departmentwho heads Galushchenko.
The resources that distribute the quote bring in their posts a card with the logo of the Ukrainian news site "Books", On which this phrase is written. However, c Telegram channel There is no publication of such a post. The design of the viral image is really similar to the one that the “Books” uses, but this is only at first glance. If you look closely, the font on the picture that has dispersed through social networks differs significantly from the original: this is most noticeable by the letters of M and U.
Thus, a picture with a statement by the Minister of Economy of Ukraine is a fake. It was not possible to find traces of this phrase in authoritative Ukrainian or international sources.
The earliest mention of the fake quote that was found “verified” using the TGSTAT service is a post in the Telegram channel ”Military observer", Which was published on June 12 at 13:41 Moscow time and scored 60,000 views. And the fake card of the Bukwi site was first placed in the channel "GAGAUS Republic"(9500 views) on the same day at 13:59.
Photo on the cover: Tripoli TPP after a Russian missile strike/UNIAN
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