In October 2024, a quote attributed to the Russian comedian and musician dispersed in the media and social networks: he allegedly complained about his Ukrainian neighbors, who prevented him from getting into a shelter during a recent attack on Israel. We checked the authenticity of this statement.
October 8 in the Telegram channel "Observer"(200,000 views at the time of writing this analysis) there was a post that Ukrainians living in Israel during the Iran missile attack on the evening of October 1 did not let Semyon Slepakov* in the bomb shelter. The authors of the publication accompanied their message with such a quote from the comedian: “I have no words now. One shelter right next to the house, of course, I am there. There, at the entrance, the Ukrainian guys directly said that "Rusna is impossible here." I had to run in two quarters. Fine? It does not fit in my head. How so, guys? I thought we were on one side. "
According to the TGSTAT service, at the time of the publication of this analysis, at least 230 similar posts appeared, which gained more than 1.8 million views in total. Among the most popular are channel records "What happened?"(144,000 views),"Sheikh Tamir"(134,000),"Alexander Semchenko"(94,000),"Club service"(71 000) and"Notepad Russia 18+"(53,000). Popular posts with the alleged quote Slepakov are found in "VKontakte"(Examples here, here And here), X And Instagram**. Also, the publication wrote about this story on its website "Ukraine.ru", And in his blog on the Zen platform - the television channel"Tsargrad".
A massive missile blow to Israel from Iran, which is mentioned in the publications mentioned above, was Apply October 1, 2024. By estimates The Israeli defense army (IDF), on that day Tehran launched about 180 shells, many of which, the Israeli military said, were intercepted.
Slepakov emigrated In Israel in the spring of 2022. Since the attack of Hamas on this country in October 2023, Russian pro -government media regularly Publishing materials, Directed Against the artists who left there. In early October 2024, such publications and Telegram channels distributed The misinformation that Maxim Galkin, Andrei Makarevich, Mikhail Shats and other Russian celebrities against the backdrop of the Iranian blow left Israel.
In many publications about Slepakov's alleged quote Approvedthat he himself told how the Ukrainians did not let him into the shelter. Despite this, there are no links to interviews or records in the social networks of the artist, where similar words would be presented. “Verified” also studied Slepakov’s pages and did not find such videouters or posts. We turned to the musician for a comment, but at the time of publication of this analysis we did not receive an answer.
By searching for keywords, it was “verified” that the earliest post with a viral quote was released on October 2, 2024 at 09:01 Moscow time in the Telegram channel “but my Yandex is a wallet"(21,000 views). The description of this channel reads: “A parody, a satire on political reality. Only proven fakes. " "But my Yandex Kid" is more than 20 times mentioned In the analysis of “verified” - his fiction, including celebrities, is often given out for real news.
Thus, Semyon Slepakov did not complain that during the Iranian attack on Israel, the Ukrainians did not let him into the shelter. Russian media and owners of large Telegram channels once again replicated satirical news under the guise of the real one.
Photo on the cover: social networks / @slepakovsemyon (Instagram)
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