In December 2024, Telegram channels distributed a video in which the leading American television shows laugh after the plot of the Ukrainians who died at the front. We checked the authenticity of this video.
On December 9, the Runet began to publish a 40-second video, which captures a working TV. On it, it is claimed, the release of news on one of the American television channels is broadcast: three presenters laugh, and on the screen behind one of them are shows of graves with Ukrainian flags. At the same time, the running line in the lower part of the screen reports that the Pentagon is concerned about mass losses in the ranks of the Armed Forces. Some resources that distributed this video accompany it with the signature: “Americans who laugh against the background of the Ukrainian cemetery are an ideal illustration of the Baydenov era.”
The video appeared in Telegram channels "Uncle Glory"(185,000 views at the time of writing this analysis),"Voblya • News"(132 000),"Sheikh Tamir"(124,000),"Kostyan Cat - Official Channel"(91 000) and"Denacification UA"(38 000).
Since the beginning of the full -scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the authorities of both countries rarely disclose data on the number of dead and wounded in their armies, while declaring superior enemy losses. They regularly give their estimates World leaders, Foreign military And International organizations, and independent journalists and researchers are trying to calculate the real losses, based on Open sources And Indirect evidence.
The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation for the last time reported On their own losses in September 2022 - according to Sergey Shoigu, who then headed the department, 5937 Russians were killed at the front. At the same time, in July 2024, Deputy Head of the Main Military-Political Administration of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation of the Russian Federation ATTI Alaudinov Evaluated Losses of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces of 700,000 people.
December 8 President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky reportedthat since February 2022, the country lost 43,000 troops killed and 370,000 wounded (half of them, according to the Ukrainian leader, was able to return to the front). According to his assessment, the losses of Russia amounted to 198,000 dead and more than 550,000 wounded.
On the same day, the elected US President Donald Trump without indicating the source brought Own data: 600,000 Russian military were killed or injured in the war, the losses of Ukraine - 400,000 military personnel and “much more” civilians. The viral video spread through the Russian-speaking Telegram channels the day after the statements of Zelensky and Trump.
In the lower left corner of the viral video, the logo of the KMAX 31 television channel is visible. This is a television station in Sacramento (California), belonging and controlled CBS. Near the logo of the channel indicates the name of the Good Day show - a daily morning program that has been broadcast since 1995. Typically, presenters discuss the latest news and events, and also talk about the road situation and weather. The show is mainly entertaining in nature: the issues are dedicated to public events, Preparation for the holidays, Cooking And fashion. Events in Ukraine, in principle, are not discussing events like a war in Ukraine. On the 25th anniversary of the program output of the program, the general director of KMAX Justin Draper Described Its like "a truly hyperlock show, and not just news, weather and reports about traffic jams." It is at least strange that the report on large -scale losses in the ranks of the Ukrainian army, according to viral posts, fell into the release of Good Day, and not, for example, evening news.
Now at the show 12 permanent presenterswho work on different days. The distributed video shows Ashley Williams and Tina Makua, and the weather forecast was transmitted by the meteorologist Darla Givens. The video spread in Russian -speaking sources on December 9, and on the eve of the release of Good Day, it was the Williams, Makua and Givens. Despite this, on the channel of the show on YouTube And Official website In the release of December 8, there is no passage that became viral. Moreover, the leading in that episode did not look like in the spreading video: the clothes and the design of the studio are different.
“Verified” was found on the Good Day YouTube channel video clip, which became the basis for a viral video. It was published on December 21, 2019, that is, almost five years before the news of the leading people laughing at the losses of the Armed Forces. The original on the screen for Williams shows not shots from the Ukrainian cemetery, but the inscription “Holid Travel” (“Traveling on the holidays.” - English).
Judging by the full version of this video, the presenters laugh from the fact that Givens made a reservation, reading the weather forecast. She talked about visibility, but accidentally said “disable”.
Most likely, when creating a fake video, a video editing program was used - footage from Ukrainian cemeteries was simply imposed on the screen in the Good Day studio. To make the fake look more convincing, the video was additionally increased in the image of the image and removed it from the screen to the phone camera. This significantly spoils the quality of the picture and, accordingly, makes edit traces less noticeable.
The creators of the fake not only put on the screen in the studio video with graves, but also edited the running line: the original showed the weather forecast in the cities of California, which duplicates the words of Givens, and the viral video reports about the discontent of the Pentagon with serious losses in the Ukrainian army. However, neither the head of the American military department Lloyd Austin, nor US President Joe Biden spoke publicly about such concern in the days preceding the spread of the video. Trump, the day before Meet with Zelensky and, judging by his post In Truth Social, who discussed losses in the war, he also did not make such statements. In addition, in the running line you can see the abbreviation Afu (Armed Forces of Ukraine, that is, the APU), although large American media are extremely rarely used to designate the Ukrainian army, which also indirectly indicates forgery.
The video spread almost exclusively in Russian -speaking sources. Neither authoritative American nor Ukrainian media wrote that the presenters laughed after a report on the losses of the Armed Forces. For the first time edited video with a similar signature Published Prochremlin Telegram channel Avia.pro December 9 at 11:27 pm Moscow time. This channel is previously repeatedly Facing In the analysis of “verified” as a distributor of fakes and inaccurate information.
Thus, the hosts of the American morning show Good Day did not laugh after the plot of the Ukrainian military who died at the front. The distributed video was forged. Its basis was the output of the program, released at the end of 2019, on the screen behind the host was the inscription “Holiday Travel”, and the laughter of those present in the studio caused a reservation of a meteorologist.
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