Is it true that the Ukrainian activist called the attack on September 11 by karma for delays in the supply of American weapons to Ukraine?

In September 2024, the screenshot of the post of blogger Sergei Sternenko on the social network X, in which he explained the 2001 terrorist attack for the United States for too slow supply of weapons to Ukraine in 2024, spread in Telegram channels. We checked the reliability of such publications.

The screenshot began to spread massively to Telegram on September 11, on the anniversary of the attack. Judging by the image, user X Sergey Sternenko (@sternenko) wrote a few hours before: “Slow down in making decisions regarding the supply of weapons is a tragedy for our country. Every day of delay is new victims among our citizens who could have been avoided. We are grateful for the help, but Ukraine does not have time to wait - people die right now. Therefore, the attack of September 11 is karma and divine punishment. In the end, then fewer people died, which is now dying of Ukrainians because of slow supplies of weapons. ” The authors of the viral posts at the same time call Sternenko a Ukrainian volunteer. The screenshot was published by such Telegram channels as "KB"(230,000 views at the time of writing of the analysis),"Uncle Glory"(187 000),"Petya the first"(83,000),"NOT ZLI Russian Medwede" (44,000), "PMC Wagner"(28 000). One of the publications in which the content of the screenshot is quoted, reputed The Channel “War with Fakes” (95,000), which positions itself as a fact of a factory project.

Sergey Sternenko - Ukrainian activist and blogger. He was widely known in 2013-2014, when took part in the events of the revolution of dignity, and then at the age of 19 He headed The recently created cell of the nationalist organization "Right Sector" in Odessa. Subsequently, Sternenko Teared off Ukrainian concerts artistsbefore that speaking in Russia, Participated in the blockade of the annexed Crimea in 2015 and Launched A petition to prohibit citizens of the Russian Federation with entry into the country in 2021. In the same year activist sentenced by seven years and three months of imprisonment for kidnapping and torture local pro -Russian deputy (Some Ukrainian human rights activists called The persecution of Sternenko is politically motivated). Based on the results of the appeal court Partially canceled The sentence, replacing the sentence with a year of imprisonment. The activist was also accused of murder when exceeding the limits of the necessary self -defense, the matter Closed In 2023, eight years later proceedings. After the beginning of the full -scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, Sternenko became a volunteer, and also continued to conduct blogs at different sites. There he talks about the course of hostilities. At him channel There are almost 2 million subscribers on YouTube, and in Telegram - More than 800,000. In his blogs, Sternenko is actively raising funds for the purchase of drones for the Armed Forces. Among his posts, you can really find publications with criticism of the allies of Ukraine. For example, in mid -July activist declared In his Telegram channel that the White House policy is "not to give Ukraine either win or lose."

For slowness on the supply of weapons, Sternenko also criticized European leaders - for example, in early 2023 he I expressed an opinionthat French President Emmanuel Macron could be more decisive in the support of Ukraine.

The activist talks a lot about the war not only in Telegram, but also in the social network X, where on him Signed 400,000 users. Mostly Sternenko’s posts are devoted to raising funds for the purchase of drones for the Armed Forces and impromptu reports on their use. Tweets on other topics are found on a blog relatively rarely and mainly relate directly to the course of hostilities. Moreover, if the post should attract the attention of foreign readers or is drawn to the allies of Ukraine, Sternenko usually Uses Not Ukrainian, but English.

"Checked" failed Find in the profile of Sternenko on the social network X Twit about September 11, the screenshot of which was dispersed along the pro-Russian Telegram channels. The image does not indicate the date of publication, but there is a note that the post was posted nine hours before the unknown took a picture of the screen. At the same time, everyone who wrote about the alleged post by Sternenko about the 2001 terrorist attack attached the same screenshot: it coincides not only the publication time, but also the number of remarks, likes, reposts and views. Considering that the activist has a thousands of audience in X, it is unlikely that at least in nine hours only one subscriber was able to take a screenshot. It is noteworthy that there is no reference to the tweet itself anywhere, which is why it is not possible to check the saved copies of the post in the Internet Archive. The latter at the time of writing this analysis is an archive copy of the Sternenko profile Made June 26, 2024. 

The earliest publication that contains a viral screenshot and which was “verified” managed to detect, appeared September 11 at 20:28 Moscow time in the Telegram channel "Bear" (7500 views). This channel has previously been repeatedly mentioned in our analysis as distributor And The source misinformation about Ukraine.

Prochremple Telegram channels and the media is far from the first to distribute fake screenshots of posts allegedly published by Ukrainians on social networks. For example, similar resources They told About the culinary class, in which the children were supposedly taught to prepare the “burning“ Crocus ”dish, with reference to the Storiza screenshot on Instagram. 

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2. "Gromadske." "Beria" and "patriotic forensicity." The story of Sergei Sternenko. Part 1
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