In February 2025, photographs of the Kyiv school were spread on the network, the facade of which is decorated with an American flag. Against the backdrop of an exacerbation of American-Ukrainian relations, the parents of the students allegedly demanded to repaint the building, because it cannot be decorated in the colors of the “proposed country”. We checked the reliability of this story.
On February 24, the reports that the parents of the students of the same Kyiv school demanded massively from the leadership of the educational institution to paint the US flag on the facade of the building. Some resources clarify that the star-striped banner painted on the wall after the beginning of a full-scale Russian invasion, but after Trump returned to the White House, it ceased to arrange members of the parent committee. As evidence, Telegram channels post a photo of a statement addressed to the school principal, where the United States is called the representative of the representative, and in case of failure to fulfill the requirements, parents threaten to complain to the Security Service of Ukraine.
The channels shared the news "Anatoly Shariy"(990,000 views at the time of writing this analysis),"Uncle Glory"(181 000),"Voblya • News"(137 000),"Ukraine.ru"(131 000),"Ostashko! Important"(106 000),"Kostyan Cat - Official Channel"(105,000),"The first folk | News"(102 000) and others.
The authors of viral publications explain the alleged discontent of parents by revenge Donald Trump. Apparently, this refers to criticism of the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky by the American leader, intensified after negotiations USA and Russia in Riyad. Zelensky, Commenting That meeting, emphasized that he did not recognize any agreements on Ukraine concluded without Ukraine. Trump in response at first declaredthat the participation of Zelensky in the negotiations was not important, and then expressed an opinionthat Ukraine had years to conclude a deal without losing a significant part of the territory. Later, the US President He called it his Ukrainian colleague as a dictator without elections and warnedthat if he does not hurry, then he will not have the country.
Viral posts are accompanied by three photos. One shows a building, the facade of which is decorated with the flags of Ukraine, Great Britain and the USA. On the other - a mural with a statue of freedom. On the third - an application addressed to the director of the Kyiv gymnasium No. 315, signed by five representatives of the parent committee.
In the first two photos, gymnasium No. 315 in Kyiv is really depicted. This is confirmed by the Google Street View panorama and other affordable images in Google Mapsas well as photos on Official website schools. In addition to flags and statues of freedom, Big-Ben is depicted to the left of the main entrance against the background of the British flag, and the yellow-blue strip is enveloping the building around the entire perimeter.
Nevertheless, the report that the school was decorated with flags of the United States and Great Britain in 2022 or 2024 year, erroneous. The building of the gymnasium Reconstructed In 2020, then drawings appeared on the facade. Accordingly, the murals are in no way connected with the support that the United States and Great Britain provided to Ukraine after the start of a full -scale Russian invasion. Their appearance is probably explained by the profile of the educational institution - a gymnasium with an in -depth study of foreign languages.
On the alleged statement, in addition to the very text, the address of the school is correctly indicated and The name of its director, as well as the signatures of five representatives of the parent committee. Usually this is an informal association, so it is not possible to check by open sources who enters it. The names and surnames of most children studying in the gymnasium are also inaccessible: the latter Several years school Publishing names entered In the 1st and 5th grades, the surname of only one of them coincides with the surname of the person who allegedly signed the application. On the other hand, parents can represent high school students or wear other names. At the same time, given that the school actively covers its activities on the official website, it is strange that the names of such active representatives of the parent committee do not appear there.
In a statement compiled in Ukrainian, there is at least one error. In the phrase “Supply of Skargu in the SBU” (that is, “submit a collective complaint to the SBU”) according to the rules should used The pretext is “before”, that is, it is more correct to say “to the SBU”.
In addition to the only photograph of the alleged statement addressed to the school principal, there is no evidence that parents, under the threat of denunciation, demand from the gymnasium administration to paint an American flag on the wall. “Verified” did not find reports on the part of the parent committee in authoritative Ukrainian -language sources of reports. There are no such statements to Official website gymnasium, neither in her social networks.
Messages about the dissatisfaction of parents and the picture of the corresponding appeal are mainly distributed by pro-Kremlin Telegram channels. The first post with a photograph of the statement that we managed to find "verified" was published February 21 at 12:42 pm Moscow time in the Zanoza Telegram channel (7000 views). The next day, viral (almost 1 million views) post with the same photos Laid Anatoly Shariy. The main wave of fake news began after post Channel "Ukraine.ru" on February 24. All these channels Repeatedly appeared in the analysis of “tested” both as distributors and as the primary sources of fakes about Ukraine.
Thus, there is no reliable evidence that the parent committee in the Kyiv gymnasium No. 315 demanded that the school administration remove American symbols from the facade of the educational institution. The alleged statement of activists has signs of falsification, and the accompanying comments of large Telegram channels contain inaccuracies about the appearance of murals on the walls of the school.
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