In March 2025, publications were dispersed in social networks that the Hollywood actor posted on Instagram a story with an insulting commentary on Ukrainians. We checked the reliability of such messages.
The news is distributed in Runet since March 10. It is alleged that Russell Crowe decided to comment on Instagram publications on how Ukrainians, according to US Vice President Jay Di Wans, scared his three-year-old daughter during their unexpected meeting with his family. As evidence, the screenshot of the Storiz of the actor is given, where he allegedly wrote: "Oh, so that is why the Russians call them pigs."
The screen was published by Telegram channels "Zlaya Pruf"(243,000 views at the time of writing this analysis),"Uncle Glory"(209 000),"Russia now • News"(196 000),"Putin in Telegram"(176 000),"Bullet"(87 000),"Z-News | Army Z 18+"(75,000) and others.
With the inauguration of Donald Trump in the United States pass Protests against his policy. Groups of activists have disagreement with the first decisions of the new administration: tightening migration legislation, changes in the transperson policy and the actions of the government effectiveness (DOGE) led by billionaire Ilon Mask. One of the last widely discussed shares passed On March 1, in Vermont, where Vance went on vacation with his family the day after the meeting in the White House with the participation of the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky the scandal of a scandal (although the organizers announced a rally a few days before).
On March 8, while walking with his youngest daughter in the city of Cincinnati, the vice-president of the United States Faced With pro -Ukrainian demonstrators. How They say Activists, they went to the protest, which was supposed to take place nearby, and accidentally met Wans. Between them there was a dialogue about the war in Ukraine, the protesters accused the White House of "selling" their ally, with which Vance did not agree. Soon he Published On the social network, the X post, in which he claimed that activists pursued him during a walk and shouted slogans, which scared his three -year -old daughter.
Judging by the virus image, video or photo from this meeting allegedly laid out Russell Crowe. On top of him, the artist inserted screenshots of three headings from the media about this incident: The Independent, New York Post And Fox News. From above, the author Storiz added his own comment: “Oh, that’s why the Russians call them pigs.”
The screenshot shows that Storiz was published 13 hours before it was seen by the user who took a picture of the screen. Although Crowe does not so actively lead its pages on social networks, on Instagram on it Signed 1.3 million users - it looks strange that at least in 13 hours only one subscriber managed to take a picture of the screen. Given the resonance of the statement, the image or at least information about the commentary of the actor was supposed to disperse into authoritative English -speaking and Ukrainian -speaking sources, but this did not happen. Moreover, in the screenshot, which, judging by the interface details, made a smartphone user on Android, there are no characteristic elements: the time, level of the telephone battery, the Internet connection indicator in the upper part of the screen and navigation button-in the lower one.
In general, judging by the posts in the verified accounts of Crow in social networks (Instagram And X), the actor is extremely rarely speaking about politics. Mostly his publications are devoted to everyday life And Musical career In the Indoor Garden Party group. “Verified” failed to find any replicas of Crowe about Ukraine and the Russian invasion of this country in open sources.
We also note that not any material whose headlines are on a viral screenshot say that Ukrainians attacked the US Vice President and his daughter. When viewing video Vance meetings with protesters are not able to identify their ethnicity. In the materials of local media who took comments from the demonstrators, Mentioned Only one native of Ukraine named Diana Ewald, but she, by her own admission, has been living in the USA for more than 25 years. In general, no authoritative media speaks of either Ukrainians' attacks on Wans, or that such protests are organized by citizens of Ukraine. Moreover, the politician himself did not talk about this.
The fact that it was the Wanses living in the United States on a walk with a three-year-old daughter who was actively written by the pro-Khremple Telegram channels. On the night of March 8 to 9, a few hours after the publication of the politician about meeting with activists, they began to spread the screenshot of his tweet with headlines like "Ukrainians attacked the three-year-old daughter of the US Vice President." The first such publication appeared In the channel "News from the world of eternal struggle" on March 9 at 00:19 Moscow time. Further, such accusations spread in other channels and the media: for example, wrote about this "Tsargrad"(218,000 views), clarifying that the Ukrainians shouted Nazi slogans from the Maidan, as well as"Ukraine.ru"(136 000),"Freshness"(84,000) and others.
The first publication of the fake screenshot with Storyz Crowe took place the next day - March 10 at 13:10 Placed Telegram channel "Bear", then the image also spread mainly in pro-Kremlin sources. All The mentioned higher channels Regularly found in the analysis of “verified” as distributors or primary sources of misinformation about Ukraine.
Thus, there is no evidence that Russell Crowe published Storiz with an offensive commentary on the Ukrainians. The screenshot used as evidence has all the signs of falsification, and its distribution began with pro-Kremlin Telegram channels.
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