Is it true that American TV presenters laughed at the death of Ukrainian men during the report of refugees?

In early January, 2025, a video was dispersed in social networks, showing how the leading one of the news in the United States allegedly joked the death of men in Ukraine. We checked the authenticity of the viral video.

The distributed 22-second entry, as stated in social networks, is a fragment of the broadcast of the American television channel MSNBC, the leading of which allegedly laughed at the large losses of the male population of Ukraine. For example, Telegram channel "NE.SAHAR”(292,000 views at the time of writing this analysis) commented on the video as follows:“ American leaders are mocking the deaths of Ukrainian men. In a report on how Ukrainian refugees from Poland are trying to get permission from the departing administration of Biden to move to the United States, the presenters wondered: "Where are all men?"
- Is there men at all? I saw only one man and 25 women.
- They are all dead.
- Oh no!
- I call a spade a spade.
- You shouldn't have said this! "

According to the TGSTAT service, at the time of writing this analysis, at least 250 similar Russian -speaking posts appeared in Telegram, which gained more than 2.2 million views in total. Among the most popular are channels Colonelcassad (222,000 views), "Russia now"(205 000),"Putin in Telegram"(188 000),"Bullet"(91 000),"Cat Kostyan"(78 000),"Voenondelo (military affairs)"(64,000) and"Military observer"(57 000). There are such publications on VKontakte (examples here, here, here, here And here), as well as on the portal "YaPlakal"And others sites.

In the lower right corner of the viral roller there is a MSNBC logo, and the titer at the bottom of the frame states that Ukrainian refugees desperately want to get to the United States. According to the location in the upper left corner, the report was removed in the capital of Poland. “They are waiting, waiting and waiting again, hoping to get into the number of 100,000 Ukrainian refugees, which the Biden administration promised to accept,” says the voice behind the scenes, after which the action is transferred to the studio, where the dialogue, given at the beginning of this analysis, occurs between the leaders.

White House declaredthat the United States plan to accept up to 100,000 refugees from Ukraine, back in March 2022, and on the fulfillment by the American authorities of this promise reported A few months after the start of a full-scale Russian invasion-in July 2022. As for the reporting of the TV channel from Warsaw, it was “verified” by its record on the MSNBC YouTube channel, where the video was the video Published On April 3, 2022.

The video lasts more than two minutes, and the leaders from the viral recording are not shown in it. In the original, the NBC News correspondent Josh Lederman communicates with the US ambassador to Poland Mark Brzezinsky and several refugees and their relatives, standing in line at the entrance to the embassy in order to apply for an American visa. In addition, more than a dozen men can be seen in the original report.

TV presenters who appear in the second half of the video of interest to us are called Alia Khordes, Bob Hertzog and Sheila Gray-they are conducting a news transmission on the WKRC-TV television channel (Local 12), broadcasting in Cincinnati. With the help of a reverse search for the screenshot “verified” it found out what was on her facebook Gray Layd A similar passage on January 31, 2024.

In the Gray version, the plot is not completely shown, but there Ukraine and refugees are not mentioned in any way, and at the beginning of the video, shots with dancing elderly people are noticeable. The fact is that in January 2024 on the network Hanged video, Removed community of pensioners Primrose Retirement CommunityOn which “gray -haired swifts” are shown - a group of elderly fans of the singer Taylor Swift. They danced to support the Kansas City Chiefs football team, which is played by Travis Kelsey, beloved Swift. About 20 people are captured in the video, the vast majority of whom are women. It was this imbalance that the host of WKRC-TV explained that statistically men live less women and die before they caused laughter from their colleagues.

Thus, unknown people mounted two videos from different television channels, one of which was not connected with Ukraine. The earliest publication with a fake among those that was able to track "verified" appeared on January 7, 2025 at 11:40 Moscow time in the Telegram channel "Odessa Za Victory!"(6500 views), which repeatedly mentioned In our analysis of misinformation and became the primary source of fakes. There the video was immediately with Russian -speaking subtitles.

Earlier, the authors of various fakes have repeatedly used the MSNBC channel logo. Among them are false stories that Pornhub I gave it The income of the former porn actress Mia Caliph in favor of Israel that actor Danny Trekho Refused cooperate with Vladimir Zelensky, since the office of the President of Ukraine required a rollback, and that the host of MSNBC criedHaving learned about the desire of Ilon Mask to buy this channel. In addition, “verified” more than once disassembled similar fabricated videos in which American TV presenters allegedly mocking over Losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine And refugee problems From Ukraine.

Photo on the cover: Collage "Checked" / MSNBC / WKRC-TV

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