At the end of March 2025, a photograph of an unusual doll, which is supposedly offered to buy in Ukrainian stores, spread in Russian -language media and social networks. We checked the reliability of such publications.
A photograph of Barbie with a prosthesis and in military uniform with a chevron in the form of a Ukrainian flag became popular in Russian-speaking media and Telegram channels on March 25. The packaging in which the toy is located is painted in national colors, and in its lower part the alleged name of the doll - Oksana, printed by branded font, is indicated. Some resources that have published a picture clarify that it is made in the Children's World store in Kyiv.
The publications shared "Tsargrad","Notebook","Moscow Region today","Another Ukraine" And "Crimean newspaper"As well as Telegram channels"Uncle Glory"(194,000 views at the time of writing this analysis), Zergulio (165,000), "Voblya • News"(154,000),"Kostyan Cat - Official Channel"(81 000), Borisenko Dmitriy (61,000), "Baibaiden"(54,000) and others.
Mattel, which produces the original Barbie dolls, at least twice produced dolls with legs prostheses - in 2019 And 2023 years. Toys were developed as part of the fight against the stigmatization of people with physical restrictions. In different years, dolls in a wheelchair, in crutches, in the same years, in the same years, in different years, With Down syndrome And even Enjoying Barbie. From time to time, Mattel produces dolls, the prototypes of which are outstanding Athletes, Directors, Activists, scientists And just women of different professions. For example, in 2020, a kind of model for Barbie fuchew I became Ukrainian athlete, Olympic champion Olga Harlan. So the very fact of the release of a doll depicting a serviceman with a prosthesis theoretically fits into the policy of the manufacturer.
Telegram channels and the media are distributing two photos of this Barbie. On the first doll is captured in the interior of the store, where it is supposedly sold. In the second, vertically oriented picture, almost only the toy itself is visible. “Verified” did not find other photos of this doll in open sources.
Some publications claim that the doll was noticed in the "children's world" in Kyiv. In this department store, judging by information on its site, there are two toy stores: I Love Party and "Teritarian Minimalny Tsin". The first of them does not have an online catalog-you can evaluate the commodity series only from the photo On the site "Children's world", and there are no such dolls. In general, I Love Party specializes in the sale of goods for holidays, so they are unlikely to have Barbie in their assortment in military uniform. On site The Minimal Tsin Testoria store has an extensive catalog, but there is no such toy (even in a separate section with patriotic goodsWhere you can buy things with Ukrainian symbols).
It can be assumed that there are no dolls in the online catalog, but it is available for buying offline, or that it has already been removed from the sale. However, the interior from the viral picture and photographs from the store "Teritarian Minimalni Tsin" do not coincide.
In the assortment of other large toy stores and Popular Ukrainian marketplaceswhose sites were studied “checked”, such a doll is absent, like any other Barbie in military uniform (in some stores represented Dolls with legs prosthesis from the Fashionistas collection). The Ukrainian media also did not cover the appearance of such a toy on the shelves of local stores, although the above the release of the doll in the image of the fencers Olga Harlan attracted the attention of the largest media country ("RBC - Ukraine" Hromadske, TSN et al.). It can be assumed that the Oksana doll is the initiative of local Ukrainian manufacturers who did not receive the Mattel license, but their lighting in the press could have been expected - for example, in 2021, journalists talked about release Dolls, inspired by the way the deputy and commander of the Volunteer Medical Battalion "Hospitallers" Yana Zinkevich. Moreover, in this case, it was a single copy, and not industrial production for sale.
Information about the appearance of a doll in military uniform on the shelves of Ukrainian stores was distributed mainly in the pro-Russian Telegram channels and the media. The first post with a photograph of the toy that managed to find "verified", was placed In the Telegram channel "Kryminforum" on March 25 at 14:31 Moscow time. This channel is regularly Appears In the analysis of “tested” as the source and fake distributor. Subsequently, Barbie was published by other bloggers, including in Russian -speaking and the English -language segment of the social network X, where some tweets Thousands of views scored.
It is noteworthy that at first a vertical photograph spread, and the picture in the interior of the store appeared only in the morning of the next day (the first it Published Telegram channel of the Notepad "Notepad" March 26 at 09:51. At first glance, it seems that the first photo is a trimmed version of the second, however, with a detailed study of images, it becomes clear that the background is different to the right of the doll.
"Verified" analyzed the vertical picture using HIVE - Service for identifying content generated by artificial intelligence. The results of the audit showed that the image with a probability of more than 95% was created by neural networks. Note that when analyzing a horizontal picture with the interior of a store in the background, Hive concludes about its generative origin with much less confidence (a little more than 27%). This can be due to both the imperfection of this and similar detectors, and with the peculiarities of their work.
Thus, there is no evidence that Barbie with a leg prosthesis and in the form of Armed Forces is sold in Ukraine. As evidence, only two pictures are used that distributed Kremlin sources. At the same time, both images, apparently, could be generated by artificial intelligence.
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