In early March 2025, several videos spread on social networks, which allegedly captured the falsification of content about the exploits of the Ukrainian military at the front. We checked the correctness of such publications.
The videos spread on March 2. One of the notes shows several actors in the form of chevrons in the form of a Ukrainian flag, members of the film crew that make up, and the tent in the background. In the other video, one of the actors allegedly pumps the other on the battlefield. Users who have published videos indicate that staging videos about the war in Ukraine and the exploits of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are filmed.
Telegram channels shared with similar signatures of the videos "Sanya in Florida"(490,000 views at the time of writing this analysis),"Sheikh Tamir"(121 000),"Alexander Semchenko"(85,000),"Cat Kostyan"(76 000) and others.
The videos began to spread against the background of deterioration of relations between Kyiv and Washington. February 28, right at journalists in the Oval office It happened The skirmish between US President Donald Trump, US Vice President Jay Di Wans and President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky. Further negotiations on which it was planned to sign an agreement on the joint development of Ukrainian minerals were foiled, and Zelensky ahead of schedule He left White House.
Several options for these videos are available in social networks. In the most complete version of the first of them, the Tiktok logo and the username of the profile that placed it is visible - @vitsikkkkk2. The name of the user there is “VICIK - Wrestie for Life”, also exists YouTube channel With that name. “The author’s channel of the military, where you can find out the truth about life on the advanced, the realities of war and personal stories from the life of a physician,” the description of the profile in Ukrainian said. Although the blogger publishes content at different sites, the main one for him, apparently, was Tiktok, where 270,000 users were signed on the military.
Two versions video, on which a man runs up to a lying girl, were published on this blog on February 28. In both cases, the signatures indicate that these are frames from the clip. The video on which the film crew makes up the girl is now unavailable, but there is a similar video, Remove From a different angle.
Apparently, we are talking about a musical video for the song “Brother”, which the blogger recorded with the performer Misha Scorpio. Clip I went out February 24, 2025, on the anniversary of a full -scale Russian invasion. At the mark 01:35 A frame with a girl from viral videos appears.
The description of the video on YouTube says that the Ukrainian military and defenders “Azovstal”, which were held by Russian captivity: Maryana Chechelyuk, Asan Isenajiev, Nikita Shastun and Alexander Bevz, were shot in the video. It was Chechelyuk who became the heroine of viral videos that spread in social networks with accusations of falsification. The girl worked until a full -scale war investigator In Mariupol, she took refuge from the bombing at the Azovstal plant, subsequently did not pass the filtration organized by the Russian side and was captured for two years. At the end of May 2024 Chechelyuk Returned To Ukraine as part of an exchange. Shastun - Azov fighter, and Iceenajiev - Medic of the brigade. Consequently, the video participants are not professional actors, but many of them are former or existing military personnel.
March 2 in the @vitsikkk2 profile in Tiktok appeared A video message of a blogger to those who distribute his content with misleading signatures. “We are here, we are fighting, we are evacuating, we win,” the young man noted, clarifying that he himself serves as a medical evacuation crew in the Kurakhov direction. The next day it was Published Another video with a refutation. Chechelyuk too Name Viral publications fake.
Pro-Russian Telegram channels mainly distributed Rollers with the tank of the channel "Alexander Semchenko". Due to the variety of signatures to the video, it is difficult to establish the source in Russian, but the earliest post with false comments on the rollers that managed to find “verified”, and the truth was Placed In the channel "Alexander Semchenko" on March 2 at 10:32 Moscow time. Moreover, at least six hours before, one of the video began to spread in the English -language segment of the social network X. In particular, it Published User @libtearcreator1. According to him, the video shows how Ukrainians imitate combat operations so that the United States continues to transfer money to them. This post gained more than 8 million views.
The description of the @libtearcreator profile indicates: “The creator of liberal tears. Political satirist. Subscribe to me and join the club. ” The user publishes posts in support Trump, fake videos with the Ukrainian president and generated AI with voice acting, and also writes that the American people He hates Zelensky. Subsequently, other popular accounts in X, some publications shared the video with the wrong signature Sicked dozens thousands of views.
Prochremple bloggers, propagandists and officials of the Russian Federation for three years regularly accuse Ukraine of falsification of photo and video content, demonstrating the consequences of Russian invasion. Since April 2022 they distribute Similar statements On the mass murder of civilians during the occupation of Buchi. In the summer of 2024, the video became viral, supposedly proving The staging nature of the part of the personnel who were shot by journalists at the site of the Russian strike at the Kyiv Hospital Okhmatdet. Often the basis for such false statements was a video on which captured Filming feature films.
Thus, on the hovering rollers, the clip shooting and a fragment from this musical video are shown. The Ukrainian military really participated in the filming, but the resulting video never imagined as a chronicle of military operations.
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