Is it true that an announcement on the search for activists to participate in protests in Georgia was posted on the Ukrainian site?

In early December 2024, a screenshot of the announcement was dispersed along the rune. It said: Ukrainians are required to participate in street actions in Tbilisi. We checked the reliability of this news.

Judging by the screenshot, they are looking for “strong guys” in Chernigov to participate in protests in Georgia, lasting since the end of October. They promise to pay candidates € 35 per day for three weeks, as well as guarantee accommodation, food and “lack of problems” when crossing the border. “The combat experience, the experience of street protests and the possession of martial arts will be a plus,” the announcement says. In some sources, in addition to this screenshot, a photograph of a passport of a citizen of Ukraine, who was allegedly found in Tbilisi at the site of manifestations, is given.

This was reported by Russian ("Komsomolskaya Truth","Tsargrad" News2.ru) and Belarusian (Belteleradiocompany) The media, as well as Telegram channels "Ukraine.ru"(122,000 views at the time of writing this analysis),"Alexander Semchenko"(77 000),"Ukraine bez options"(45,000),"Ramzai"(38 000) and others.

In October 2024, parliamentary elections were held in Georgia, in which, by official dataThe ruling party "Georgian Dream" received 54% of the vote. Prochuropeian opposition and president of the country Salome Zurabishvili They saidthat the voting results are falsified, and called for mass protests. The tension increased refusal Zurabishvili to leave his post after the expiration of her powers if new parliamentary elections are not held. On December 14, the new head of state for the first time in the history of Georgia was not elected by citizens of the country directly, but by a board of electors from among deputies and representatives of local authorities. President on a non -alternative basis became Former football player, and now a conservative politician Mikhail Kavelashvili. Its inauguration is scheduled for December 29.

Rallies took place within a few days after the parliamentary elections, and then flashed With renewed vigor at the end of November, when Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobahidze announced that negotiations on the country's entry into the EU were suspended until 2028. Demonstrations near the parliament building were accompanied by harsh detentions and clashes: radical protesters used pyrotechnics against the security forces, in response, special forces used water and pepper gas. Not only citizens of Georgia, but also foreigners living in this country, participate in the shares - so, from November 28 to December 10, local police Detained 15 Russians. At the same time, Russian pro-government media constantly draw parallels between the current protests in Tbilisi and the Ukrainian Euromaidan, paying attention to the yellow-blue flags that the protesters bring and stripes With the symbols of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the clothes of some demonstrators.

If you believe the screenshot, the announcement was posted on November 30 on the Work.ua website - a popular service in Ukraine to search for work. However, “verified” at the time of writing the analysis did not find such vacancies on this portal. At the same time, the construction industry and woodworking are indicated as a sphere of activity of the employer-a certain V. N. Petrenko-and the announcement itself is placed under the section “Provision of Protection”.

An almost identical announcement two days earlier, November 28, was placed by a certain V.N. Yareshko, who really was looking for a guard. In two vacancies, the city, the field of activity of the company, the specialization of the employer and the number of employees coincide. With a high probability, this announcement became the basis of the viral image.

FACTECHERS from the project "Ґvara Medіa»We turned for a commentary to Work.ua. Representatives of the service replied that the announcement of the search for activists to participate in mass protests in Georgia was never placed on their portal. In addition, as the manager of Work.ua noted, such a publication would be filtered already at the premotation stage, as it contained certain stop words.

As for the photograph of the Ukrainian passport allegedly found in Tbilisi, it is also reported with reference to the screenshot of the announcement of the find. A picture of the document itself was also attached to some such publications.

Such a publication on the Georgian website of free adsotavr ads really exists. It was posted on December 3, and a passport in the name of a certain Mikhailo Solyak born in 1982, it was alleged, was found in Tbilisi on Rustaveli Avenue (it is there that the Georgian parliament building is located and most protest shares are located).

However, the reverse search for images in Google shows that this is far from the first publication of the same photograph of the passport.

Back in December 2020, photo Placed In the Facebook group of “Transcounts of Transcarpathia”-the solyak passport was found at the bus station in the Uzhgorod, located near the Ukrainian-Slovak border.

Thus, although the announcement of Cenotavr is the present, its author used a photograph, first published on social networks almost four years ago. The screenshot from the Work.ua website is simply fake - apparently, it was falsified on the basis of a real announcement that has nothing to do with Georgia. Apparently, both fake news were created to promote the propaganda thesis about external intervention in the political process in this country.

According to the TGSTAT service, the earliest publication about the non-existent Chernihiv announcement appeared on December 5 at 15:31 Moscow time in the Telegram channel "The crossbow says". He is more than once mentioned in the analysis "tested" as The source inaccurate information. A photograph of the Tbilisi’s passport was the first to post a channel "ZhS Premium"(Enters into the gross grid grid) a few minutes earlier.

Photo on the cover: Wikimedia Commons. The photo was taken in 2022.

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