In July 2024, a video was encouraged on the Web, where, as claimed, a resident of Ukraine complains about an employee of a kindergarten - she punished the child for Russian speech. We checked the reliability of this story.
Such messages were encouraged in Runet on July 18. For example, this is how the news was presented by the Telegram channel “Ukraine.ru” (twice: 123,000 And 116 000 Views at the time of culing this analysis): “In Vinnitsa in kindergarten, the teacher washed his mouth with soap child for conversations in Russian, after which he developed allergies and stomatitis. Parents write complaints in a bunch of instances and ask for help, report [in Telegram channel] "Polite and caring". They are not sure what will help - most likely, the local authorities will also award the" patriotic "teacher." A video allegedly shot by the mentioned mother is applied to one of the publications. The newspaper "The newspaper"Arguments and facts"Reported that this video in social networks was laid out by the mother of the victim, and then the record spread through Ukrainian public and Telegram channels. At the same time, the Russian publication did not provide any links.
According to the TGSTAT service, at the time of writing this analysis, about 240 similar posts about this news appeared in Telegram, in the amount of about 1.5 million views. Channels wrote about the alleged incident in Vinnitsa kindergarten "Ne. Sahar"(213,000 views),"Sheikh Tamir"(134,000),"Kostyan Cat - Official Channel"(83,000),"Special operation z"(56,000) and other authors of the channel"Russia 2.0"(40,000 views) commented on the news as follows:“ Ukraine is no longer a country, but a real sect! Agree? " In the channel "Mriya"(48,000 views) The described case was called" an ethnocide as it is. " Such notes are common in VKontakte (examples here, here, here, here And here).
Two versions of the record are distributed in Runet: the most popular is that which lasts 36 seconds, but there is an option for 5 seconds. longer. Both videos show three documents: an application addressed to the director of the kindergarten, an appeal to the Vinnitsa regional prosecutor’s office and a certificate from the doctor. From these papers it follows that a woman who allegedly removed the video is called Olesya Kovalchuk, and her five -year -old son Alexei suffered on July 13, 2024. Now the mother demands to hold the teacher Elena Panasyuk to justice. The video does not show the face of a woman who behind the frame in Ukrainian says:
“I just don't understand where to go. I say: my child in the kindergarten was washed his mouth with soap for speaking in Russian. For some reason, the teacher decided that she had the right to do so. Of course, I already wrote a complaint against it. The committees also turned to the committees. But the worst thing is that after that my child developed allergic stomatitis. Here, please, a certificate from a doctor. And this is just some kind of p *** c. I don't understand how it is possible. This is a child! Child!"
To begin with, “verified” tried to find the source of the viral recording. Although the newspaper “Arguments and Facts” claimed that the Mother herself posted the video on the Internet, and then he dispersed along Ukrainian social networks, “verified” could not find such publications in Ukrainian. At the same time, the earliest post with the video that we were able to track appeared on July 18 at 14:18 Moscow time in the Russian-speaking Telegram channel "Partisans of Ukraine"(13,000 views). According to the TGSTAT service, this is a Russian channel, which, according to Description, opposes "against the regime of Vladimir Zelensky." After just a minute, the same post was published in the channel "Shaman Rahu"(3800 views), which mentioned More than 30 of our disinformation analysis, mainly related to fake photos and videos.
Also, “verified” studied the statements shown in the video and found some errors in the documents. So, one of the complaints was compiled in the name of Datsyuk Natalia Vyacheslavovna - supposedly the director of kindergarten No. 67 "Sun", located in Vinnitsa at the address: ul. Vasily Porik, 17. A kindergarten with such a number and name actually exists - according to site, it is open as a sanatorium -type institution for tube, weakened and often ill children. However, the "sun" located In Vinnitsa differently address: st. Stelmakh, 45. Moreover, on the garden website indicatedthat his head is called Irina Stanislavchuk. But at the address indicated in the application located Kindergarten No. 52 "Rainbow". According to site Institutions, this is a nursery-garden of general development with compensating groups for children with violations of the musculoskeletal system. Head Rainbow - Ekaterina Shundrovskaya. In turn, Natalya Datsyuk mentioned in a statement on some Ukrainian sites indicated as the leader of the Vinnitsa kindergarten No. 31, who also called "Sun".
The application to the prosecutor also contains an error. In the complaint, the woman indicated the phone number +380 (66) 28-55-05, but it is recorded incorrectly. Ukraine uses numbers in 12 cere format +380 YY XXX-XX-XX, where 380 - International telephone code of the country, YY - the code of the region or mobile operator (in this case 66, usually the Vodafone operator) and XXX-XX-XX-a seven-digit subscriber number. That is, the mother of the child allegedly forgot one figure of her number.
As for the medical certificate shown in the video, three seals are on it: two of them indicate that the document was issued in the Vinnitsa public children's dental clinic, and the third is the nominal stamp of the doctor Yana Olegovna Gavrilyuk. Our colleagues from the Ukrinform agency Checked The authenticity of this paper and came to the conclusion that it was forged. Although Gavrilyuk actually works In dentistry, in a commentary to reporters, the girl said that she was an employee of the private Vinnitsa clinic Dent House, not a city institution. This confirms and fast In Instagram*-account Dent House. “A certificate shown in the video is not mine. In addition, I did not have a patient with the surname Kovalchuk, which is indicated in it, ”Gavrilyuk added.
FACHECHERS from the Stopfake project Turned For commentary on the director of the Department of Education of the Vinnitsa City Council Oksana Yatsenko, who also refuted the authenticity of the viral history. She stated that neither in kindergarten No. 67, nor in any other preschool institution of Vinnitsa, such incidents with washing his mouth did not occur. The department added that a teacher named Elena Panasyuk does not work in the kindergarten No. 67, and the boy, mentioned in complaints, did not visit this institution. And the department of healthcare of the Vinnitsa city council drew attention to the fact that the Vinnitsa children's dental clinic, mentioned in the medical certificate, was liquidated eight years ago.
Thus, there is no evidence that in Vinnitsa kindergarten a child washed his mouth with soap for using the Russian language. The video about this first appeared in the pro-Kremlin Telegram channels, and in the statements presented and the certificate there are a number of errors and inaccuracies. The city authorities also denied that such an incident took place.
*Russian authorities They think Meta Platforms Inc., which owns the social network Instagram, an extremist organization, its activities in Russia are prohibited.
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