In early November 2024, the media and social networks distributed a photograph allegedly taken in one of the post offices of Poltava. We checked the authenticity of this photo.

As reported, the residents of Poltava “took the salvation of Ukraine”, organizing the collection of money for the custom -made murder of the chosen president of the United States Donald Trump. The motive was his negative position regarding military and financial assistance to Ukraine from the American budget. In evidence, two photographs of the collection banks, allegedly placed in the unnamed post office of Poltava, were given.

They wrote about this "Arguments and facts","Moscow Komsomolets" Life, 39.ru, "Morning South"And other Russian -speaking media. The photo was actively distributed thanks to channels such as "Russia now"(205,000 views at the time of writing this analysis),"Putin in Telegram"(175 000), Voblya (142 000), "Gasparyan"(107 000) and"Yegor Miszovets"(94,000).

“Verified” did not find traces of the spread of this news in the Ukrainian media and Telegram channels, although it was there that, according to the logic of things, it should have dispersed first of all. In the Russian -speaking segment of social networks, two photographs taken, judging by the situation, at about the same time, are replicated together. The collection of a large amount, limited by one small jar in one specific department of Ukrposhta, looks at least strange.

Both photos are made close -up, which practically excludes the possibility of their geolocation. A bill of 10 UAH sticks out of the bank (about 25 US cents) is a comic amount for declared targets. Next to the jar you can see a leaflet with the heading “How the size of the housing subsidy is calculated” in Ukrainian. Like Bulletin He was laid out in the official account of the Pension Fund of Ukraine (PFU), it is easy to download and print it on a printer. As for the box on which the bank and the information ballot are standing, “verified” did not find photos with such an inventory taken in the Ukrposhta or PFU branches. Boxes with a similar slot installed In the branches of the "Post of Russia".

FACHECHERS from the Stopfake project Turned In the press service of Ukrposhta for clarification. They answered: "No employee of the company has anything to do with what is happening in the image." The representative of the national postal operator noted that the photographs were not taken in the Ukrposhta branch, because, firstly, their departments are not equipped with furniture of this type, and secondly, there are no advertising or information materials that can be seen in the picture in the premises of Ukrposhta.

According to TGSTAT, the first photos with the corresponding signatures were posted by the pro-Russian Telegram channel "The crossbow says"November 7 at 17:05 Moscow time. He repeatedly mentioned In the analysis of "tested" as one of the sources of the spread of misinformation.

All these indirect data indicate that this photograph with a high probability was staged and was not taken in the Ukrposhta branch.

Photo on the cover: social networks