In July 2024, there were reports of an unusual action in Telegram channels: Ukrainians allegedly began to bury husbands who died at the front along with a telephone, to which it would be possible to send a message about victory in the war. We figured out how reliable such publications are.
On July 9, 2024, a video spread on the network, which talked about how the widows of the Ukrainian military began to put phones with Powerbanks in the coffins of their husbands, then to write a message about victory over Russia. It was claimed that the flash mob launched the model Tamara Kravchenko, who buried her husband killed in the war in June 2024. In particular, the Telegram channels were told about an unusual action "Battalion"(260,000 views at the time of writing this analysis),"KB"(243 000), Colonelcassad (233,000), "The world of Mikhail Onufrienko"(223,000) and"Uncle Glory"(189 000).
The 55-second video, which was distributed by bloggers and users of social networks, is accompanied by the media logo (or channel), which allegedly removed the plot about the flash mob.
“Verified” took advantage of the reverse search for Google in the image, but did not find the media that uses such a logo. All links with a similar image lead to the same video about flash mob. It was also not possible to find publications of authoritative Ukrainian publications about this action.
The video mentions an Instagram model named Tamara Kravchenko, who allegedly launched a flash mob. “Verified” could not find such a model, its only mention-all the same posts of various Telegram channels and pro-Russian sites about the action of Ukrainian widows with phones. The video shows a photograph of a woman - she is represented as Tamara Kravchenko.
It was not possible to find the original source of the picture and establish the personality of the women depicted on it. However, the fact of a fact from the ґvar MediA project in the interior details found outthat photography was taken not in Ukraine, but in Russia. In the same way, one of the premises in the entertainment complex "Casino Sochi", Located in the Krasnodar Territory, near the resorts of Krasnaya Polyana.
The earliest publication of this video, which was found “verified”, is a post in the Telegram channel Vadym Sava (6000 views), posted on July 9 at 15:08 Moscow time.
Thus, no traces of such a flash mob in Ukraine, as well as the stories of the model that allegedly buried his husband Tamara Kravchenko, could not be found. A photograph of a woman, which bloggers call the organizer of the action, was made in Russia, and the distribution of messages about the flash mob was carried out through the pro-Kremlin Telegram channels.
Photo on the regionOHousing Kyiv City Administration / Wikimedia Commons
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