In November 2024, the news dispersed in Telegram that the results of presidential elections in the United States greatly reduced the fighting spirit of the Ukrainian army and the Armed Forces of Ukraine began to surrender more often. We checked how reasonable this statement is.
On November 11, Telegram channels became a viral message that stated: “The Ukrainian military began to surrender eight times more often after Trump’s victory. In the period from November 6 to 11, an eight -fold increase in cases of surrender to the Armed Forces of Ukraine was recorded in comparison with statistics until November 5. ” Such posts appeared in the channels "Uncle Glory"(184,000 views at the time of writing this analysis),"Putin in Telegram"(179 000),"Dmitry Vasilet"(163,000),"Bullet"(89,000),"Ostashko! Important"(85,000) and"Kostyan Cat - Official Channel"(72 000). The news was distributed in other social networks (for example, on the Bocharov showman blog in X appropriate tweet Sicked 24,000 views), as well as in the press - for example, it was published "Arguments and facts" And "Russian newspaper".
The US presidential election took place on November 5, 2024. Donald Trump, who had already held this post in 2017–2021, won. During the election campaign, the politician has repeatedly said that the United States should leave the war in Ukraine, and promised in the case of his victory as soon as possible to achieve the end of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine profitable for both sides. After the election, Trump and his team continue insist At the speedy beginning of negotiations, involving territorial concessions by Kyiv. Trump's statements about the war in Ukraine have repeatedly become a reason for publications in Russian propaganda media and Telegram channels, and they used both real statements by the elected president and fakes (fakes (fakes (some of them Disassembled "Checked").
This time, the authors of most viral publications call the statement that the editor -in -chief of the EURONEWS television channel allegedly, but there are no references to this application in posts. Several channels (for example, "Kostyan Cat - Official Channel") Accompanied their notes with a video with the logo of the American Institute for the Study of War (ISW), which shows a quote from Claus Strunts, editorial director of EURONEWS since October 2024. “Everything comes to logical conclusion. The defeat of Ukraine is obvious to everyone, the soldiers use the last chance to save their lives and have every right to do so, ”the media manager allegedly said, calling the situation of expected in the war zone.
Duration 44 seconds. It is mounted from several photos replacing each other to the music. The video does not use either the outfit voice acting or direct speech, but the main statements (the same as in the publications of Telegram channels) are given in subtitles.
"Verified" studied the verified ISW accounts in X, YouTube, Instagram And Facebookas well as official website institute. There is no video on these resources that Telegram channels distributed, as there are no text messages that the Ukrainian military began to surrender more often after Trump’s victory in the elections. In addition, the video is markedly different from those that usually publishes in their ISW social networks - in them subtitles wear only an auxiliary function, and experts speak camera.
The reverse search for photographs in Google showed that images from open sources were used in the video, and at least part of the pictures illustrating the surrender of the Ukrainian military in November 2024, dated in the spring of 2022.
“Verified” also did not find in authoritative sources a quote attributed to Struntsa in a viral video. In verified account There are also no media manager in the X such statements. The video used in the video with the participation of Strunz is cut out of its interview, published on the YouTube channel of the German publication Bild in January 2022, even before the start of a full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Authors posts V Some Telegram channels did not refer to the video allegedly published by ISW, and not to the alleged statement of Strunets, but on fast Cheya Bowe in the social network X. Bowz - Irish publicist, cooperating with Russian channel RT. His tweet does not say how he knows about the frequent cases of the surrender of the Ukrainian military.
"Verified" has already disassembled one Of the fakes launched by Bowe, but this time misinforming content was not the first to place. The earliest publication on this topic, which managed to find "verified", appeared on November 11 at 12:52 Moscow time in the Telegram channel "Military observer"(Earlier it is repeatedly Facing V parsing “Retrieved”), and two hours later a bouz tweet was placed. The video mimicing under the ISW video is the first Published Pro-Russian Telegram channel "Before everyone else. Well, almost. Special operation "on the same day at 14:19.
Thus, the assertion that after the victory of Donald Trump in the US presidential election in the United States, the Ukrainian military became eight times more likely to surrender, authoritative sources are not confirmed. The words of one of the EURONEWS leaders are attributed to him unreasonably as evidence, and the ISW video has been forged.
Photo on the cover: a screenshot of a viral video
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