In mid -December 2024, an excerpt from the ABC report was widely dispersed on the Web. It says that since the beginning of the war, Ukraine has lost 1 million soldiers who died and several hundred thousand people were seriously injured. We checked the authenticity of this video.
On December 11, the news spread on social networks and the media, which argued that the ABC channel reported a million who died in the ranks of the Ukrainian army. The text was accompanied by a 15-second video in English, where the military who learn to use prostheses are captured. Presumably, the video was shot at the rehabilitation center. A bossed voice tells about the losses of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces: “In just two and a half years of the war, about a million Ukrainian soldiers died. And, according to the most optimistic forecasts, hundreds of thousands of them lost limbs. This statistics are incredible. ” The video is accompanied by Russian subtitles.
The video was published by Telegram channels "Voblya • News"(148,000 views at the time of writing this analysis),"Ukraine.ru"(136 000),"Oleg Tsarev"(100,000),"Release Krakenaz!"(95,000),"Kostyan Cat - Official Channel"(80,000) and others. In addition, the news appeared in the social networks of the television channel"Tsargrad"And on the portal"The voice of the people".
Since the beginning of the full -scale invasion of Russia to Ukraine in February 2022, both parties extremely rarely disclosed data on their own military losses. Moreover, officials are often overestimated enemy losses. During active hostilities, it is almost impossible to find out the real number of losses on both sides. International organizations And World leaders regularly voiced their own assessments, and Media They try to calculate the number of dead, relying on open sources, but their data also differ significantly. In September of this year, The Wall Street Journal with reference to Ukrainian sources and Western intelligence data WroteThat the total losses of Russia and Ukraine were killed and wounded by a million people. These data They were criticized, including for the fact that the article does not indicate which category of the wounded is meant, which is especially important when calculating the irretrievable loss of the army. Despite this, with such an assessment, they also agree to NATO: the same figure He called it December 12, General Secretary of the Alliance Mark Rutte.
December 8 President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky reportedthat since February 2022, the country lost 43,000 troops dead and 370,000 wounded, of which half were able to return to duty and continue the service. Approximately the same data was given by US President Donald Trump - according to his assessment, loss of Ukraine They make up total 400,000 people.
Even the Russian authorities, inclined to overstate Losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, officially did not announce a million of the dead Ukrainian soldiers. On November 19 this year, TASS, referring to his own calculations, Evaluated The number of APU losses of 900,000 people (killed and wounded). Head of the General Staff of the Russian Federation Valery Gerasimov December 18 declaredthat the total losses of Ukraine since the beginning of the war amounted to about a million people killed and wounded.
In the upper right corner of the viral video, the ABC News Live Prime logo is indicated. This is the name of the news program on ABC with a constant leading Lindsay Davis, which daily Lights The most important world events. In the last seconds of the video, you can see the host of this release Kane Whitworth, who comments on the plot: “Just incredible!” Given that the video spread on December 11, the report on the losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine could be released in the release of the coming days, that is, December 9 or 10. In the sentry plot For December 10, the war in Ukraine is not mentioned at all, as well as December 9th, besides, Kane Whitworth does not appear in any of the videos. There is no information about a million dead Ukrainian soldiers on the official website ABC.
Search for personnel from the hungering video showed that they were really first published on the ABC YouTube channel. However, this one reportageThe heroes of which were the Ukrainian military, was released on March 29, 2023, that is, a year and a half before the news of the news about the million who died in the Armed Forces. The original plot lasts 5 minutes, and it tells about the work of an American non -profit organization Kind Deedswhich provides prostheses of Ukrainian soldiers who have lost limbs in the war. The fund promotes the treatment of military personnel in Ukrainian hospitals, and then transports patients to the United States to receive prostheses and rehabilitation in the specialized center.
The ABC report tells the stories of two soldiers: the novel and Oleg, who are undergoing a restoration course at the University Hospital of Steaten Island. Both lost their legs in the war and learned to use prostheses obtained with the assistance of Kind Deeds. Losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the video are not discussed at all, and the phrase "just incredible!" It has nothing to do with the loss of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. In fact, this is a reaction leading to the plot about the courage of the Ukrainian military.
The video that spread in social networks is fully consisted of personnel of the original ABC report, but they are mounted in a different order. Excerpts are used, where only one of the military is captured, while all the frames where the man’s face is visible or speech is heard are cut out. At the beginning of the hungering video, the military learns to walk with the prosthesis of the left leg. In the original, the same frame Showed At the mark 02:35. A sunsid voice explains that the soldier is the name of Oleg, he is 50 years old and he was injured, performing a combat mission next to the village of Davydov Brod. At the end of the viral video, Oleg enters the elevator of the rehabilitation center (the original video, on the contrary, begins with this).
The voice reading the sunbeam in the viral video is not like either Lindsay Davis, nor Kane West. FACCHERS OF THE PROPECTS "VOKS Ukrainian" suggestedthat the voice acting could be created using artificial intelligence (AI), and checked the audio path using the AI Speech Classifier tool. It determines whether the audio was created through the Elevenlabs service, which using AI converts the text into speech. The VOKS Ukrainian analysis showed that the probability of such a manipulation is 98%. A similar result was received and “verified”.
This video spread widely in Russian -speaking blogs and the media, but there are also similar posts in the English -language segment of the social network X. Its Published User @IVAN_8848, but with subtitles in English at the bottom of the screen. However, for the first time, fake video was placed In the pro-Kremlin Telegram channel "Odessa Za Victory!" December 11 at 12:45 pm Moscow time. Immediately after the first publication, the video with a almost identical signature was diverge And through other channels. "Odessa ZA Victory!" More than once mentioned In the analysis of “verified” as a distributor of inaccurate information and even the primary source of fake news. For example, this Telegram channel was the first to publish Fake video The NBC TV channel, where allegedly during the greeting of Zelensky and Macron, the advertisement of the show "Great Thieves of the 21st Century" surfaced.
Thus, ABC did not publish a report on a million dead military in the ranks of the Armed Forces. The video distributed on the network is made up of the frames of the original video of the American television channel, but on top of these frames there is a sunbathing voice created with the help of AI.
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