At the end of September 2024, Internet users distributed petition reports, which allegedly appeared on the website of Vladimir Zelensky. Its author, bloggers say, asks the president to assign Donetsk the name Joe Biden. We decided to check if this is so.
On September 30, an image appeared in social networks, which, stated, is a screenshot of the section with petitions on the website of the President of Ukraine. One of these initiatives is allegedly devoted to the request to rename Donetsk. Its author Andrei Vladimirovich Moskal calls on to perpetuate the name of US President Joe Biden, who consistently supports Ukraine, and rename Donetsk into Baydenodar. “This word, which means“ Biden’s gifts ”, will become a geographical memory of the US assistance on the map of Ukraine,” says the encircled screenshot. It was distributed by dozens of Telegram channels, including "Falcon"(202,000 views at the time of writing this analysis),"Uncle Glory"(176 000) and"The first folk | News"(102 000).
In Ukraine, according to the law "About the appeal of citizens", Petitions addressed to the head of state, placed On the website of the president of the country. The viral image indicates the date of the creation of the petition - September 30, 2024. For this day, 18 appeals to the president appeared on the site. 16 of them - about the assignment of the title of Hero of Ukraine who died at the front for military personnel, one about the organization of production in the country of American ballistic missiles atacms, another one - about providing a deferment from the military service of those who have a spouse’s disabled groups of group III. No petitions on the renaming of Donetsk were “verified”. There is no it in Archive copy the corresponding section on the site made on the night of September 30 to October 1.
The second discrepancy is the serial number of the petition. At the hungering document, this is No. 22/534728-EP. Meanwhile, the numbers on the site go in order, they are assigned automatically, and the latter at the time of writing of the analysis is No. 22/235072-EP. That is, a petition with such a number obviously could not be served in 2024.
Finally, the document that appeared on the Web allegedly posted the head of the Ukrainian Rukh movement by the Ivano-Frankivsk region Andrei Moskal. “Verified” failed to find a public figure with that name, such a combination is mentioned only on sites that posted the news about the renaming of Donetsk.
The earliest publication that contains a screenshot and which was able to track “verified” appeared on September 30 at 16:36 Moscow time in the Telegram channel ”Kostyan Cat - Official Channel"(73,000 views). This resource mentioned In several dozen of our analysis as a distributor and primary source of misinformation about Ukraine.
Previously, pro-Komrelev Telegram channels have already distributed screenshots of similar fake petitions on the website of the President of Ukraine. For example, in July there Allegedly collected Signatures under the initiative to assign the 3rd assault brigade of the Armed Forces named after the right activist Irina Farion, who was killed shortly before in Lviv.
Thus, a petition that is encircling on the network about the renaming of Donetsk is a fake. The authors apparently failed to create a deliberately absurd petition on the corresponding site: only citizens of Ukraine can do this, past Identification on passport data, electronic signature or through an account in a Ukrainian bank.
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