In March 2025, the news spread widely in the media and Telegram channels that children were called upon to convey to their relatives on Ukrainian television. We checked the reliability of this story.
On March 10, a 38-second video shot onto the phone diverged on the rune, which allegedly captures the air of the Ukrainian children's television channel "Plusplus" either on a computer monitor, or on a small TV. Judging by the video, they showed a short cartoon about a boy in a T -shirt in the colors of the Right Sector and with the Ukrainian coat of arms on his chest. He plays with soldiers, but hears music and goes to look for a source of sound. It turns out that this is his sister in the next room is watching a video with US President Donald Trump, dancing under the song “Sigma Boy”. The sunsid voice in Ukrainian says: "Remember: if the sister worships the rashists, then she is not your sister." Next, an announcement is displayed on the screen with the hotline of the Ukrainian Security Service and the need to report to law enforcement agencies about state treason. Some resources spreading the video indicated that subscribers from Kharkov sent him.
They shared this video Eadaily, "Notebook","Terrible information"And other media, as well as Telegram channels"In fact in the Dnieper"(2 million views at the time of writing this analysis),"Uncle Glory"(213 000),"Observer"(216 000),"Voblya • News"(166 000),"Ivan Utenkov | Kursk"(162 000),"The first folk | News"(109,000),"Freshness"(104 000),"Emergency / Crimea"(100,000) and others.
Restrictions on the use of the Russian language in Ukraine have been one of the important topics for the manipulations of pro -Kremlin media for many years. As for music, in Ukraine since the summer of 2022 really forbidden Public reproduction of songs created or performed by citizens of the aggressor state (Verkhovna Rada Recognized Such Russia back in 2015). For violation of this norm Provided fine. In Kyiv, for example, restrictions are even more stringing - there in the summer of 2023 Forbidden Any public use of Russian -language songs (and other works), regardless of the citizenship of the performer.
However, listening to Russian music or songs in Russian is private, for example at home or through headphones in public places, is not regulated and not prohibited by Ukrainian law. In addition, there is the so -called White list Russian performers who condemn military aggression and on which prohibitions do not apply. However, in order to get into the list, the artist must submit a special application to the SBU and sign the declaration in which he supports the territorial integrity of Ukraine, undertakes not to take actions in support of the aggressor country and agrees to publish this document. “Verified” failed to find a white list of Russian performers in the public domain.
The song "Sigma Boy", sounding in the cartoon, was released last fall and became viral. On YouTube, she Sicked more than 110 million views, and in January 2025 I took it Seventh place in the world chart Billboard. The composition performed by Russian teenage girls Svetlana Betsy Chertishcheva and Maria Yankovskaya drew attention to a variety of officials and activists. On the one hand, the Russian conservative movement "Forty forties" It was called to ban The clip for the song, considering it excessively sexualized, while the deputy of the European Parliament was furious Put itthat Sigma Boy is promoting patriarchal foundations among European youth. The Ukrainian authorities also spoke out against this song, calling Its part of the information war, but no sanctions for its listening were in private was announced.
In the upper left corner of the TV screen, which appears in the viral video, the logo is visible TV channel "Plusplyus." This is one of the most popular children's television channels in Ukraine, it is part of the holding "1 + 1 media". "Plusplyus" already attracted attention Russian pro -government media in 2022, when on it appeared A series of cartoons about the Russian invasion.
As evidence of the broadcast of the cartoon calling to hand over its relatives of the SBU, the same video is used. The author of the video shoots (presumably on the phone camera) screen, where it is supposedly a broadcast. At its very end, the phone number and email address of the SBU are shown.
Viral video raises several questions. Firstly, it is strange that only one version of the video is spreading-given the resonance of statements in the cartoon, it is unlikely that only one person was able to record his broadcast on a popular children's channel. Moreover, it looks implausible when in its publications The most diverse Telegram channels claim that the subscriber sent a video to them. Secondly, the design of the last frame is significantly different from those that the SBU press service usually uses in its videos. On the video of special services usually depicted Ukrainian military, and in such information campaigns indicated Hot line contacts and emblem. In addition to the phone number, the address of Telegram-Bota is also given, where you can anonymously send information anonymously. In addition, the slogan “Your Security is our care” from the CBU viral cartoon used on an ongoing basis before 2018, now at the end of the videos Demonstrated The phrase in Ukrainian "protect Ukraine together." Note that the number and email from the screen are relevant - these Help and e-mail phone SBU.
The distributed video also says that listening to Russian music falls under an article about the Stateizer. However, this is not so: in Ukrainian legislation, listening to music in Russian - or, as stated in the video, “worship of rashists” - Not counted The basis for initiating a criminal case under this article.
The Security Service of Ukraine actually periodically conducts information campaigns calling citizens to assist, and their traces are easy to meet on the network. For example, in January of this year in the SBU announced The launch of the bot, through which you can report on cases when a person offers money for arson or mining of objects in Ukraine. Then the department published a video explaining the illegality of such actions. However, this video, unlike the viral, was posted in all the verified accounts of the SBU in social networks (Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, Telegram, X) And On the site special services. In addition, numerous Ukrainian media told about the action ("Channel 24" New Voice, "RBC-Ukraine","Ukrinform"Et al.). The same applies to the aforementioned cartoon of 2022 about the Russian invasion: information about the broadcast of the tape “Good Zzhzhdi Peremaga” (“Good always wins”) can be found and Official website "Plosplus", and in many Ukrainian Media.
At the same time, the cartoon call to report “worshiping the Rashists” is not mentioned on the SBU website or on the verified pages of the special services in social networks. On site "Plusplyus" and in program There are no information about him either. It can be assumed that the SBU and representatives of the TV channel deleted the cartoon after wide publicity, but the media did not write about it, unlike the tape of 2022. March 13 in the verified account "Plusplus" on Instagram appeared A post, which claims that the video calling to convey to relatives listening to Russian music has never been broadcast on the air of the channel.
The video spread mainly through the pro-Kremlin Telegram channels. The first post that contains a viral video and which managed to find "verified", Placed In the channel "Noah's Ark" on March 12 at 07:24 Moscow time. After about an hour video appeared In the channel "In fact in the Dnieper." Although he has only 28,000 subscribers, the post scored more than 2 million views thanks repost To the Channel “Peace Today with Yuri Podolyak”, to which 3 million users are signed. These two channel Regularly mentioned in the analysis of “verified” as the primary sources and distributors of fake news.
Subsequently, the video also became viral in the Russian -language segment of the social network X and in Tiktok. Several popular publications appeared in English - for example, video Placed cooperating With RT Irish publicist whose bouz. In his tweet, he turned to US Vice President Jay Di Wansu: “You agreed to resume military and intelligence assistance to the dictatorship, whose fear of the SBU reconnaissance service (Gestapo) is openly encouraging young children to report to their parents if they look at memes with the dancing Donald Trump.” Some other users even They wrotethat the funds for the creation of this cartoon are allocated by American taxpayers.
Thus, the SBU did not release the cartoon with an appeal to convey to relatives listening to songs in Russian. There is no information about such a campaign either on the official resources of the special services, or in authoritative media. In addition, the plussplyus television channel, where the cartoon was supposedly broadcast, confirmed that the video used as evidence is fake.
Photo on the cover: social networks
- "Ukrinform". RF ROZANGANI Fake about launching in Ukraine by advertisements, yak by “report” at the SBU to Rodich for Rosigh
- Is it true that in Ukraine the girl almost strangled her sister to watch the Russian animated series?
- Is it true that the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine forbade the name of the gray hare Rusaku?
- Is it true that in a kindergarten in Vinnitsa, the teacher washed the child with soap with soap for conversations in Russian?
If you find a spelling or grammatical error, please inform us of this, highlighting the text with an error and by pressing Ctrl+Enter.
