In February 2025, a video was dispersed in Runet, in which the French president during a live broadcasts in social networks allegedly demonstrated an inverted map of Ukraine. We checked the reliability of such messages.
February 21, 2025, official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova Published In his Telegram channel, a video on which French President Emmanuel Macron shows the audience a map of Ukraine. “Apparently, demonstrating the inverted map of Ukraine, Macron wanted to explain that their plan to“ inflict a strategic defeat ”is implemented upside down and everything is turned upside down. Moreover, for the patient, ”commented the video speaker of the Russian Foreign Ministry (109,000 views at the time of writing this analysis). They told about the post of Zakharova TASS, "Gazeta.ru","Moscow Komsomolets"And other Russian media. Some of them additionally criticized Macron. For example, in the Telegram channel "Tsargrad-TV"It emphasized:" And after all, no one whispered to the headphone to the French president that the card was upturned. Most likely, because none of the environment of Macron simply has a concept of what the map of Ukraine looks like. ” Publications on the same topic appeared in other channels, among which Gura Anton (95,000 views) and "Special operation z"(65,000), as well as in"VKontakte" Instagram, X And Facebook.
February 20 Macron Spent In his social networks, a watch airtime, during which he answered questions from the audience about the war in Ukraine and threats to European security. At the beginning of Stream, the politician briefly described the history of the conflict, in particular, he demonstrated the map of Ukraine with the marked regions that Russia annexed and/or occupied in 2014 and 2022. Fragments of the broadcast showed on French television - so, Zakharova published an excerpt from the air of the channel BFMTV, it was he who became viral in the Russian segment of the Internet.
The original stream macron took place in Facebook And on YouTube. At a time mark 02:37 The French president took a map of Ukraine from the table and demonstrated it to the audience. The map, contrary to the words of Zakharova, is not upturned, but merciful. The same problem is observed with other cards and documents that Macron showed during Stream. In other words, all the printouts were correct, but the operators conducted video broadcasting in mirror reflection. In the same form, her fragments fell on the air of BFMTV. Subsequently on YouTube channel Macron has already been uploaded to the right, uncontrolled video.
Thus, in the stream of Macron, the map of the occupied territories of Ukraine really looked mirped, but this happened due to the broadcast error, and not because of the problems with the printing or oversight of the French president.
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