In the days of the Session of the UN General Assembly, a video spread on social networks, the author of which captured a street campaign against Ukraine in front of the headquarters of this organization. We checked the authenticity of this video.
On the 11-second entry, removed, on the 20th of September in New York, two men hold posters with the inscriptions of Fuck Ukraine (“To the Count of Ukraine”) and No Money to Dictators (“No money to dictators”), as well as with the caricature image of Vladimir Zelensky. It is assumed that the action is dedicated to the arrival of the Ukrainian president at the Session of the UN General Assembly.
This video received the main distribution in Telegram - in particular, thanks to the channels "Anatoly Shariy"(907,000 views at the time of writing this analysis),"Russia now"(208 000),"Uncle Glory"(192 000), Voblya (156,000) and "The first folk"(104 000).
On September 10, 2024, the 79th session of the General Assembly opened at the UN headquarters in New York, and from September 23 to 25 at various events of the UN ("Summarize the future" Meeting of the Security Council, sessions General Assembly) was the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky. As part of a visit to New York, he also met with leaders USA, Germany, France, Great Britain, Canada, Japan, India, Turkey, South Africa and other countries.
The viral video was shot on Crossroads Forty-seventh street and first avenue in the immediate vicinity of the complex of buildings headquarters of the UN. Demonstrators who want to draw attention to a particular political position regularly gather on this site and adjacent streets. This is especially common during the days of the UN General Assembly. So it was this time - on the set Photos And video, dated to the 20th day of September, are visible participants in shares for a variety of reasons: from protests against the supply of weapons to Israel to calls to stop corruption in Ghana. Hit Getty images and shots with posters dedicated to Ukraine in the photo bank - however, it is impossible to call them anti -Ukrainian in any way.
In the photograph taken on September 25, two men hold posters with the inscriptions of Russia is a terrorist state (“Russia - a terrorist state”) and Stand with Ukraine (“Support Ukraine”). Judging by the entourage, this is about the same place as in a viral video, only removed from another angle. People from the picture are similar to the heroes of the viral video, but dressed differently. It is noteworthy that in numerous fresh photographs from New York cloudy weather, and the sun is shining brightly on the Telegram channels.
Moreover, in the video next to two men holding posters against Ukraine and Zelensky, you can notice participants in anti -war protest. Demonstrators, acting with opposite calls, are in the immediate vicinity of each other, which looks strange.
Both in the photo Getty Images, and in the viral video, another group of demonstrators and a banner with an inscription in Chinese and English are visible.
Judging by the inscriptions, the participants in this action protested against the persecution of adherents of religious movement Falungun In China. Such demonstrations are traditional for New York in the days of the Session of the UN General Assembly. Here are just a banner on a viral video is more like the one used on shares in 2021-2023 years, not in 2024.
And it was on September 20 last year that @irina_livadnaya and @Protestny on Instagram appeared videoon which the heroes of the video, which became a viral autumn of 2024, are visible from a different angle. In their hands, posters with the inscriptions of Stand Up with Ukraine (“Support Ukraine”) and Stop Genocide in Ukraine (“Stop genocide in Ukraine”). Men are surrounded by protesters with other pro -Ukrainian posters.
As the New York activist and community administrator reported " For Freedom in Russia On Facebook, Julia Zaporozhtseva, the photo captures regular participants in anti -war protests in this city. She confirmed that they were photographed in 2024 by the Getty Images correspondent, and provided other pictures from last year's protest. In these photos, both men also keep posters with slogans in support of Ukraine.
The basis of the viral video, as “verified”, became video clip From the verified YouTube channel Voice of America Africa, published on September 21, 2023. When creating a fake, not only posters were changed, but also the VOA logo was cut.
According to the TGSTAT service, the first video was published by the Telegram channel "Release Kraken!"(67,000 views). There the video was posted on September 24, 2024 at 17:53 Moscow time. This channel repeatedly appeared in the analysis of "tested" as source disinformation.
Thus, a video with protesters against the support of Ukraine near the UN headquarters building in September 2024 was changed. As the basis of the video, the creators of Fake took a fragment of the Voa Africa report published last year. On the original video, the demonstrators, on the contrary, expressed solidarity with Ukraine.
Photo on the cover: screenshot from a viral video
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