In August 2024, a story dispersed in Runet how a Ukrainian athlete allegedly died during a symbolic campaign. It is reported that he set up his main parachute in the colors of the Russian tricolor to land on a spare in the colors of the Ukrainian flag, but he did not open. We checked whether this actually happened.
August 22 in the Telegram channel "Russia now”(268,000 views at the time of writing this analysis) a post appeared with the following news:“ The Ukrainian paratrooper said goodbye to Russia and crashed. The tragedy occurred during a jump, which was supposed to symbolize the "final farewell of Ukraine with its past." According to the athlete, after the disclosure of the main parachute in the colors of the Russian flag, he destroys him with a shot from a rocket launcher and makes landing on a spare parachute (in the colors of the National Flag of Ukraine). For reasons unnamed, the spare parachute has not worked. As a result of the fall and blow to the ground, the man died on the spot. Local media publish shots of destruction of the dome of the main parachute from the camera of the deceased athlete. Very symbolic, since Ukraine also crashed and died after saying goodbye to Russia. ” The publication also gives three photos that capture the process of fire of a white-blue-red parachute.
According to the TGSTAT service, at the time of the publication of this analysis, about 100 similar posts appeared in Telegram, which in total gained more than 730,000 views. Among the most popular are notes in the channels "Z-News | Army 🅉 18+"(102,000 views),"What happened?"(92 000),"Russian format"(43,000),"A special opinion"(39,000) and"Notes of Zhirinovsky"(30,000). Tens of thousands of views of such posts received in "VKontakte"(Examples here, here, here And here) And social networks X. The allegedly dead Ukrainian extremal was also written in Livejournal (here And here) and on the site Newsland.
The publications mentioned above reports that the Ukrainian media distributed the record from the camera of the deceased paratrooper. However, “verified” could not find such news notes in the press or the Ukrainian -language segment of social networks.
Moreover, if you recover the screenshots given in the posts, you can find a video that was Published On the Catube Caters Clips in September 2020 on the YouTube channel. An excerpt, whose frames were encouraged in Runet in August 2024, begins at the mark 00:02. The full record shows that the coloring of the parachute does not repeat the Russian tricolor, on it is another sequence of stripes: white, blue, red, blue, white. On the Newsflare website indicatedthat the video was shot in July 2020.
In the description of the video It is saidthat the video captures a trick performed by Extrem Kyle Marcart, who, in order to increase the complexity of the jump, set up his main parachute with a height of 7,000 feet (more than 2.1 km) with a height of the rocket launcher. However, then Marcuart opened an orange spare parachute and landed safely. He performed a dangerous trick over the city of Austin in Texas.
The earliest publication about the deceased Ukrainian paratrooper was “verified” in the Telegram channel “but my Yandex is a wallet"(30,000 views). There the post appeared on August 22 at 10:39 pm Moscow time. Description of this channel saysthat the author publishes a humorous nature: “A parody, a satire on political reality. Only proven fakes. " We are previously repeatedly Disassembled Cases when other channels, publics and media outsteked fictions from “But my Yandex Kid” for real news. In addition, one of the more popular satirical Telegram channels called ““CDUM"(189,000 views).
Thus, the Ukrainian did not break up to death after he drove the main parachute in the flowers of the tricolor and could not reveal the spare in the colors of the Ukrainian flag. The owners of large Telegram channels and publics on VKontakte once again distributed satirical news under the guise of the present.
Photo on the cover: @Catersclips (YouTube)
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