Is it true that the gas company from Lviv hung the announcement “Russians will not be able to go to your house on a regular gas pipe”?

In March 2025, a picture of the announcements spread in Telegram channels and social networks, with the help of which in Lviv they allegedly fight with panic among local residents who arose due to the operation of the Russian military near Kursk. We checked the reliability of this photo.

The viral picture captures, as states, several announcements in one of the offices of Lvivgaz. The inscription on one of the sheets reads: “Attention! Russians will not be able to go to your house on a regular gas pipe, it is small! Stop calling the emergency service! ” In Telegram, they shared this picture "Nasurabi"(375,000 views at the time of writing this analysis),"Newsach / Dv"(242 000),"Observer"(222 000),"Uncle Glory"(216,000) and other channels, in total, collecting about 4 million views. Similar posts also appeared in Facebook, "VKontakte" X, Instagram and on some news sites.

The authors of many publications with a viral picture clarified that the alleged panic among Lvivians is associated with the so -called Operation "Stream"which the army of the Russian Federation Spent In early March. It was reported that the group of the Russian military entered the rear of the Ukrainian group in the occupied part of the Kursk region, having passed about 15 km along the Urengoy -Pomary -Uzhgorod pipeline, according to which gas was previously delivered to Europe. Kremlin Reported About a successful operation and promised to present its participants to awards, while the General Staff of the Armed Forces insiststhat the attempt of Russian special forces to get into Suju through the gas pipeline was unsuccessful and led to huge losses Russia.

Contrary to the reports of Telegram channels writing about the panic of the residents of Ukrainian cities that followed the operation, “verified” could not find her traces in the media, statements of officials and the Ukrainian-language segment of social networks. The search for photographs of a viral announcement made from other angles was unsuccessful.

There are several questions that cause questions in the picture. Firstly, the announcement, located directly above the viral, is mentioned on August 15, although the operation “Stream”, which allegedly provoked mass calls to Lvivgaz, occurred in early March 2025. This announcement is about the action “Your Energonalism” (“Your Energy dependence” - Ukrainian), which the company Naftogaz Ukraine Spended From August 15 to September 30, 2020. It is unlikely that the announcement of the campaign of five years ago is still hanging in the gas service office. It is much more likely that the basis for the viral picture was a photograph taken in 2020.

This hypothesis is confirmed by another poster located to the right. Reverse search by the image showed that the original announcement informed citizens about quarantine measures during the pandemic Covid-19 in 2020: “Dear customers! A quarantine restriction on visiting customer service centers has been introduced. For this period, maintenance is made remotely. ”

Finally, “verified” managed to detect original Photos used to create a fake. It was published on September 7, 2020 on Google Maps in the section from the photo of the “Consumer Service Center for Consumer Services of PJSC“ Lvivgaz ””. In the original image, the announcement of interest to us is the continuation of the upper information sheet about the action “Your Energonalism”.

Among other things, the mention of Lvivgaz in the comments on the edited picture is clear anachronism. From September 1, 2023 she Deprived Licenses for the distribution of gas in the Lviv region, this function was assumed by the National Operator of Gazeseti. However, the object on Google Maps has not yet been renamed, and, probably, therefore, the creators and distributors of the fake were mistaken in their publications. 

The spread of the image began in the pro -Russian segment of Telegram on March 12, 2025. The earliest publication that managed to find "verified" was placed at 12:10 Moscow time in the channel "Shaman Rahu"(9600 views). He constantly publishes false information and far from the first time Mentioned In this capacity, “verified” in the analysis.

Thus, an announcement of the Russian military in gas pipes is a fake. The image with fictional text was imposed on top of a photograph taken almost five years ago, and the gas distribution company, allegedly addressed with such a request to customers, actually stopped its work back in 2023.

Photo on the cover: Telegram

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