In early November 2024, a video of the church service held in Ukraine spread on the Internet, during which the priest allegedly called on the Americans to prevent the “devil’s arrival to power”. We checked the reliability of this video.
On November 5, the Russian media wrote about the statements of the Ukrainian priest at that time of the US presidential candidate from the Republican Party (for example, “Arguments and facts" And Lenta.ru) and ordinary users of social networks ("VKontakte" X). The 21-second video shot during the sermon spread widely on Telegram channels: they wrote about the resonant statement of the clergyman "Operation Z: Warrixes of Russian Spring"(504,000 views at the time of writing this analysis),"NE.SAHAR"(267 000), Nexta Live (250,000), "Russia now"(209 000),"Observer"(195,000) and others. In some sources, it is stated that the priest belongs to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (PCU), in others-that the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC).
Judging by the titles imposed on the video, the video was cut out of a direct broadcast, which was conducted from Ivano-Frankivsk on November 5, 2024, on the day of the US president. In addition to the date and geolocation, banking details for donations in favor of the Greek Catholic Archicathedral Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ are also indicated. In the video, the clergyman in Ukrainian says: “Trump is an antichrist. The death of the whole world will come with him. No wonder they recently found an entry in the old book that Trump is the last president of the United States. So we pray for the prudence of the American people so that they do not allow the devil to come to power. "
The cathedral, where, presumably, the video was shot, has its own channel on YouTubewhere they lead daily Online broadcasts Liturgies taking place in the temple. Carried out such a broadcast and November 5. It lasts almost an hour, the sermon itself It begins From the 11th minute and goes a little more than 5 minutes. However, the clergyman does not mention Trump - neither in a positive manner nor in a negative one. Since the broadcast was carried out from different cameras and there are installation gluing on it, we can assume that we are talking about American politics, it could be cut out of the air. However, if you carefully watch the preaching, you can notice that the video sequence in the viral video is taken from the record on YouTube - the same shots can be seen from marks 15:36. However, at that moment the priest says completely different: he discusses what the heart is, and notes that it is in the heart that a person’s thoughts are born.
Representatives of the Ivano-Frankivsk archbishop of the UGCC did not leave the viral video without attention. Already on November 5, the official website was published refutationin which the video is called the dipper.
The earliest publication of a video with a Soundman about Trump, which managed to detect “verified”, was made in the Telegram channel Nina Vatt November 5, 2024 at 16:56 Moscow time. Within half an hour exactly the same posts appeared in a number of pro -Russian channels. Nina Vatt is not the first to act as the primary source of misinformation. For example, earlier “verified” already refuted the reports that were widespread through this resource, like US presidential candidate Kamal Harris Commented The prevented attempt on Trump with the words that he "cannot even die with dignity." Moreover, at that time a real video with a politician was also taken, which was supplied with another sound path created using artificial intelligence.
Thus, a video with a prayer against Trump is edited with the help of AI - in fact, the priest during the church service at that moment spoke completely different. The American politician at that Liturgy was not mentioned at all.
Photo on the cover: screenshot of the YouTube channel "Arkhatedralny Cathedral"
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