In March 2025, a video allegedly released by Ukrainian television channel and telling about fraud around donations for the needs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine spread over the network. We checked the reliability of this information.
As stated in a 30-second video with the logo of the Kyiv television channel, in 2023, Ukrainian activist Kirill Karpenko raised $ 1.2 million through his project “Drones to the Front” to help the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The following year, an estate worth $ 1 million on the Spanish Costa-Dorada was supposedly bought in his name. The authors of the video note that this is far from the first case of such fraud, and they urge only verified funds.
The video spread in social networks (X, "Classmates"), As well as in Telegram, where it was published by channels"Cat Kostyan"(164,000 views at the time of writing this analysis), Gura Anton (100,000), Borisenko Dmitriy (84,000), "Talipov Online"(46,000) and"In fact in Kharkov"(38 000).
Donates for the needs of the Armed Forces (in particular, on purchase Dronov) play a noticeable role in the supply of the Ukrainian army. According to survey Rakuten Viber, in 2024, almost two -thirds of Ukrainians at least once transferred money to the military, and 44% did it monthly. A year earlier, the corresponding indicator was 46%.
Given how many people are involved in this area, scandals were not ignored. So, Ukrainian investigating authorities together with Estonian colleagues for several years Investigated The waste of € 1.5 million donated by the inhabitants of the Baltic country. In 2024 in the assignment of donates suspected The volunteer of one of the Ukrainian volunteer units. About these cases became known from Journalistic investigation or messages of the victims.
“Verified” could not find in the Ukrainian segment of the network of messages about the fraud of a volunteer named Kirill Karpenko and the scandal followed. This applies to both authoritative media and popular blogs. The only evidence that Telegram channels give is a video with the logo of the Kyiv television channel in the upper left corner. However, the video itself is not on the official site channel, not in its accounts in Telegram, X, YouTube, Instagram, Tiktok And Threads, and in the design of the viral video and genuine there are significant differences.
So, in the real video of the television channel on Instagram (only there you can find rollers without sunsy voice acting), a white (not pink) logo, another font and kegl, as well as the allocation of one of the words with a pink background, are used. At the same time, a vertical pink strip along the text is not used there as an element of design, and the videos themselves do not go out in a square format.
Doubts are also caused by some details of the video. So, the video does not contain original images, which is uncharacteristic for the content of any large television channels. The panorama of the Spanish town of Sijes, used in the video, is in the public domain - for example, her Use On the website of the company accompanying investment in Spanish real estate. It is also not entirely clear why dollars appear in the report, because the currency of Spain is Euro.
In addition, among the whole variety of thematic funds currently in force in Ukraine, “verified” did not find a single one that would be called “Droni to the Front” (“Drones for the Front”). The only more or less famous Ukrainian named Kirill Karpenko - The machine gunner of the Azov regiment, who died in March 2022 during the battles for Mariupol.
The first viral video was published on March 21 at 11:34 Moscow time pro-Russian Telegram channel "Cat Kostyan". He is already repeatedly Facing In the analysis of "tested" as the primary source of misinformation about Ukraine.
Thus, there is no evidence that the organizer of one of the fees for the DSA drone for the Armed Forces of Ukraine spent the received donations for real estate in Spain. The video used as evidence was forged, probably, in order to reduce the confidence of Ukrainians to the idea of transferring funds to the needs of the military.
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