In January 2025, the media and Telegram channels distributed messages that the YEPPA Hansen fighter instructor died during the Russian missile attack at the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces. The evidence of this was the screenshots of the post of a certain user and the profile of the Danish pilot in social networks. We checked the reliability of this story.
In mid-January, information appeared in Runet, according to which, during the Russian missile shelling of the Ukrainian city of Krivoy Rog, the NATO instructor was killed by flights on F-16 fighters. For example, on the morning of January 18, the Sheikh Tamir Telegram channel (136,000 views at the time of writing this analysis) wrote (spelling and punctuation are preserved): “In the Danish FB (Facebook. - Approx. Ed.) They write that an instructor for F16 from Denmark died in a missile attack on a crooked horn. His friends wrote a text that differs with the official version of Zeblan. ” Channel "Uncle Glory"(189,000 views) specified that the alleged Danish instructor was called Yeppe Hansen and that they wrote about his death in unnamed social networks. At the same time, the screenshot of the publication was attached to the posts. Some of them also Approvedthat the Dane allegedly issued his whereabouts to the "local prostitute", after which there was an attack.
In the afternoon of January 18, on its site and in social networks The TASS agency, citing power structures, also reported the death of the Danish pilot and the operating instructor of F-16 fighters. “[Yepp] Hansen was destroyed during a missile strike at the APU training center in Krivoy Rog,” the agency’s interlocutor said. In the evening of the same day, publications were dispersed, in which a photograph of the alleged Danes was given. For example, the Telegram channel "Sheikh Tamir" (133,000 views) He wrote So (spelling and punctuation are preserved): “Presumably a photo and account, a rocket killed yesterday in Krivoy Rog, a Danish instructor in F16.”
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In the afternoon of January 17, the air forces of the Armed Forces Reportedwhat was Fixed Start of ballistic missiles on a crooked horn. The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation this attack then Not commented, but Readovka, citing Russian "military commissars" I wrotethat the arrival of the Iskanders came at the training center of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces, located in an unused social facility. According to the Prochremplevsky publication, the goal of the attack was the corps of the Krivorozhsky Aviation College. According to the newspaper "Arguments and facts", In total, during the blow to the training center, more than a hundred of both Ukrainian and NATO military could be destroyed and wounded.
Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs And State Service In emergency situations, partial destruction of the building of the educational institution confirmed. Besides, reportedThat almost 20 private houses, more than ten vehicles and four multi -storey buildings were damaged. Initially, the Ukrainian authorities stated that as a result of an attack on January 17 Died Four people and up to 14 Received wounds (four of them). The next day, the head of the Dnipropetrovsk regional administration Sergey Lysak wrotethat the injured woman died in the hospital.
As for the death of an instructor pilot from Denmark, which really Transmitted The Armed Forces of the Armed Forces of the F-16 aircraft, then a certain Oscar Sorensen, a friend of the deceased military man, allegedly wrote about this in social networks on January 17. According to the virus screenshot, he published his entry on the social network X, and not on Facebook. The following necrologist is given in his post in the Danish:
“Today we learned the sad news.
It has just become known that my friend and colleague Yeppe Hansen died in Krivoy Rog in Ukraine.
Here, in his homeland, he taught Ukrainian soldiers to pilot F-16 fighters. His experience and skill helped hundreds of Ukrainians master this difficult discipline. But today his life was tragically broken.
I express the deepest condolences to his family and relatives. He was a real professional and a good friend. "
At the time of writing this analysis on the social network X, you can find an Oscar Sorensen account with the same userneum, which is indicated on the viral screenshot (@Oskarsrnsn), but without Blue ticks And with another photo on the avatar. According to the description of the profile, on the site this user registered in July 2024 and left only four messages that all date from January 19. One of these tweets is fixed, in it in English It is said: “The news of the death of Jeppe Hansen was greatly exaggerated. An hour ago, he headed a bicycle raid to Russia, as a result of which the entire Russian fleet Su-57 was destroyed. ”
It turned out that reports of the alleged death of the Danish instructor in Ukraine were interested in the Danes of Oliver Alexander (@Oalexanderdk) - analytics and blogger, practicing Investigations on open sources (OSINT). January 19, in his social network X, he shared a viral image and wrote: “This is not even good Russian propaganda, but simply lazy. The news was taken from this "screenshot" of Twita of a non -existent account. The text is clearly translated into Danish and was written not by the native speaker of the Danish language. ” After 10 minutes. Aleksander declaredthat propaganda works very poorly and that now he himself has become an Oscar Sorensen. So, the blogger shared his English -speaking tweet with the @skarsrnsn page mentioned above, where It was said: “They did not even have the mind to take this username, because I just took it to myself. And this means that this name was not used by any of the suspended accounts. Imagine that you are too lazy to even just create a fake tweet profile. ”
In one of the remaining posts, Alexander in Dat explainedthat this was his old second profile, to which he switched and changed his name. In another post, the blogger again on behalf of Oscar Sorensen I joked About the allegedly deceased instructor: “Yeppe is in perfect order. On that day, I went through a little and confused the film "In the siege" with Stephen Sigal with reality. "
Some Russian media (among them "Arguments and facts") And Telegram channels (for example,"Military observer") They stated that Hansen's death was confirmed by Danish and American publications. However, “verified” did not find such materials in any authoritative foreign media. We add that in all the posts we have found, only the same screenshot was given that you can understand by the same number of reactions in tweet (the number of views, likes, retweets, reflexes and adding to bookmarks). At the same time, according to some users, on January 18, @skarsrnsn usernema in X There was no.
In addition, it was “verified” that Oscar Sorensen, which is captured in a viral image, has a photo of Danish on the avatar of the page of Oscar Sorensen businessman Aleksander Lindhardt, who is on his page In the X post from the distributed screenshot also did not publish.
The second confirmation of the existence of the deceased Danes was three screenshots of his alleged profile in Linkedin - social networks for searching and establishing business contacts. The images showed that Hansen allegedly worked as a Cybersagsbehandler case in the Royal Air Force of Denmark, graduated from the University of Olborg and the Danish Academy of Defense, and the NATO alliance is indicated in the list of his interests.
"Checked" discovered similar profile On LinkedIn, however, the full name of the Danes is not indicated there (instead, only the initial H. is worth it). In addition, there is no photo of the profile and a little different work in the Air Force command is noted-just a case manager. What a man is captured in a viral picture from an avatar (and whether this person is real), we could not find out.
The death of the Danish instructor F-16 Refuted and defense minister Denmark Toles Lund Powlesen - the corresponding statement on January 19 appeared in Facebook head of the Ministry of Defense and on page this department on the social network X.
Currently, the Russian media will circulate the information according to which yesterday (at the time of publication of the application, the shelling was the day before yesterday.-Approx. Ed.) As a result of a missile strike in Ukraine, a certain Danish instructor for F-16 fighters was killed. This information is not true. Not a single Danish soldier was killed in Ukraine. This is a false story distributed by the Russian media, probably to discredit Denmark. I am very serious about this. But, unfortunately, this is an example of a very serious security situation, which we have in reality and in which influence campaigns are widely used, including lies and misinformation.
It is noteworthy that several Russian media, among which Lenta.ru, Life.ru and newspaper "Sight", Subsequently wrote: Denmark Ministry of Defense refuted the death of its pilot in Ukraine. TASS In his note on the statement of the Danish minister, he also recalled that at the end of April 2022, the Denmark of the Denmark announced the identification of a family, presumably, who died in Ukraine, a 25-year-old Danish. According to the Danish television channel TV 2Since March, he fought as part of the International Legion of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces and entered a group of eight soldiers, six of which did not survive. According to the channel, among the killed there was one American and at least one Briton.
The earliest post with the viral screenshot of tweet, which was tracked “verified”, appeared on January 17 at 18:41 Moscow time in the Telegram channel “Bear"(8000 views), and after 18 minutes. A similar record came out in the channel "Ukrop Fresh"(7400). As for the post with the screenshots of the profile in LinkedIn, then, presumably, they appeared before all in the channel mentioned above "Sheikh Tamir" - January 18 at 18:22. All three These resource Previously, they distributed a large number of anti -Ukrainian fakes and often became their primary sources.
Thus, there is no evidence confirming the death of the Danish soldier during the shelling in Krivoy Rog in January 2025. Initially, this news appeared in the pro-Kremlin Telegram channels, more than once noticed in the spread of misinformation. Such messages are based on the forged screenshots of the post on the social network X and Linkedin. The death of the Danish instructor in the F-16 was called a fake and the Denmark Ministry of Defense.
Moreover, this is not the first such fabricated story about the death of a foreign instructor in Ukraine. In the fall of 2024, in RuNet it was reported that as a result of a Russian airfield impact in the Khmelnitsky region, the American military was killed and several F-16 fighters were destroyed, and the supposedly wife of an American pilot told about this on Facebook. "Checked" in detail toldWhy this is a fake.
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