At the end of November 2024, reports began to spread on the Internet that unknown residents of the Ukrainian capital allegedly inflicted graffiti with the image of the target and the words “Putin, here!” On the square in front of the parliament building. We checked the reliability of this information.
The news of this target began to actively disperse in the Russian media and Telegram channels on November 29. Reportedthat the drawing was inflicted by the Kyivians, tired of the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky and the deputies of the Verkhovna Rada and therefore supporting the Russian troops. Telegram channel "Z-News | Army "(82,000 views at the time of writing this analysis) Commented The news is like this: "The surviving Ukrainians themselves dream of getting rid of an expired drug -fuel and company." Many posts were accompanied by a video that shows the building of the Rada and graffiti with the target and the inscription. According to "Moscow Komsomol", This video shot by an eyewitness in Kyiv, first appeared in the Telegram channel"Tsargrad-TV"(78,000 views). Similar posts published channels "Sheikh Tamir"(206 000),"Russia now"(198,000),"Open Ukraine"(60 000) and others.
November 28, Russian President Vladimir Putin at a press conference in Astana declared: The Russian military command selects goals in Ukraine in order to strike at them with a new hypersonic missile complex "Oreshnik". Among them, Putin specified, there may be Ukrainian defense enterprises and decision -making centers in Kyiv, but the politician did not call any specific objects.
The next day, a video with a target appeared in Runet, supposedly painted by the building of the Ukrainian parliament, and the inscription “Putin, here!”. An eyewitness seems to remove the circular panorama and is not focused on graffiti itself, but almost the entire drawing enters the frame in the lower part of the screen. “Kyiv, Verkhovna Rada. Here is such a garbage right in front of the building, ”says a vocal voice behind the scenes in Ukrainian, although the author of the video does not direct the camera to graffiti, which the audience draws to.
There are other details that cause suspicion. Firstly, with a detailed study of the video, it is clear that the inscription "Putin, here!" It looks too flat and neat. There are completely no distortions in the image, and they inevitably arise when graffiti is applied to the paving stones. The inscription looks like a computer and is very different in style from the target itself, which seemed to be painted with a spray with paint. In addition, in some places the image of the paving stones is blurred, and the target allegedly drawn on it is unnaturally clear. These inconsistencies of the depth of sharpness indicate that the target with a very high probability was added to the video editor.
Secondly, on August 23, 2024, the columns of the Rada buildings were Covered Yellow-blue canvases in honor of the Day of the State Flag of Ukraine. And, judging by the photographs taken by the Ukrainian factory project Stopfake December 5 (a week after the appearance of a viral video), the appearance of the building remained the same by the beginning of winter. Nevertheless, on the viral video of the column of the same color as the rest of the facade, and there are no jewelry on them.
Thirdly, as noted in Stopfake, at the end of the video, the Mariinsky Park and a monument to the Soviet General Nikolai Vatutin, located next to the parliament of the parliament, fell into the frame. This monument was Dismantled Ukrainian authorities back in February 2023. How reminded local media, in 2014 the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory Turned on Vatutin in the list of persons involved in the struggle against the independence of Ukraine, the Holodomor and political repression. If the viral video were really shot in November 2024, only the pedestal left from the monument would be seen in the frame (the sculpture itself was transferred to the aviation museum).
The earliest post with a fake video that was able to find “verified” was published in the Telegram channel Nina Vatt November 29 at 17:51 Moscow time. After half an hour, an almost identical post appeared in a more popular pro -Russian channel "Sheikh Tamir". The Nina VATT channel has repeatedly acted as the source of misinformation, previously “verified” already refuted the fakes that he common, mainly about Ukraine And USA.
Such videos diverge from the pro-Kremlin Telegram channels for the far from the first time. The creators of these fakes either use the videos shot in public places and published on social networks, or turn to those who are sympathetic in the field, and then in the video editor add disinforming elements: graffiti, inscriptions, posters, etc. Such manipulations are often aimed at the first impression - in the calculation that the audience will not analyze in detail the content video. So, "verified" already Disassembled The video from the board at the restaurant in the center of Kyiv, which allegedly sold a barbecue with Karabakh smoke and the Shot “For Pashinyan” shortly after the fall of 2023 Azerbaijan took control of Nagornaya Karabakh. Another example - A photograph of the stand “We do not serve Ukrainians for free” with one of the Berlin cafes, which spread through the pro -Kremlin resources in the summer of 2024, but its basis, as it turned out, was a picture shot almost a year earlier.
Thus, the news of graffiti in the form of a target with the inscription “Putin, here!”, Approaching the building of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, is Fake. In close consideration, it is noticeable that the drawing looks unnatural, and a monument, which was dismantled in 2023, fell on the video. All these inconsistencies confirm that the video shot at least a few months ago was edited, apparently, with the aim of misinformation.
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