Is it true that in the deutsche Welle reports the same Ukrainian played the woman and a nanny raped by a soldier in Sumy?

In April 2025, the affirmation spread throughout the Russian-speaking Telegram channels that in two videos of the German media company, the Ukrainian woman, but the actress portrayed them, had removed from the war. We checked the credibility of this theory.

Viral posts contain four screenshots, which depict the posts of the Russian Deutsche Welle service in the social network X and personnel from the videos published there. Two screenshots captured a woman represented as Katerina Satake, a nanny. Judging by the accompanying text, she talks about the consequences of the Russian missile strike on the sums on April 13, 2025. In two more screenshots, a woman named Daria was shown, who told reporters how the Russian military raped her during the occupation. “The actress who played yesterday played by the drilling Daria, already today-the nanny Katerina, a resident of Sumy,” comment on these screenshots in Telegram channels.

With a similar signature, they were distributed by Telegram channels "Bottle"(166,000 views at the time of writing this analysis),"Ivan Utenkov"(126 000), Voblya (124,000), "Petya the first"(79,000) and"Falcon"(72 000).

Indeed, on April 14, at 19:00 Moscow time, on the verified page of the Russian DW Russian service on social network X appeared tweet About Daria Zimenko - a resident of the Ukrainian village, who in 2022 found under Russian occupation. In the accompanying video, the girl tells how the Russian soldier took her from the house under the pretext of interrogation, after which he raped.

Zimenko - Artist, designer and activist of the SEMA Ukrainian organization, who unites women who have suffered from sexualized violence. Soon after the beginning of the full -scale Russian invasion, the girl left the Ukrainian capital to the Buchansky district of the Kyiv region, being under occupation. In 2024 in Kyiv Opened Zimenko photo exhibition, based on her personal experience, after a few months she Spended At a thematic conference in France. Moreover, Ukrainian Journalists The personality of the Russian military, presumably raped the girl in 2022, and even contacted him through Telegram.

April 15, the day after the publication of the video about Zimenko, on the DW page in X appeared A short interview with Katerina Sate - as stated, a nanny from the city of Suma, which came to the spontaneous memorial to the victims of Russian missile strikes. IN result Two days earlier, 35 people were shelling, including two children, and the girl shared her experiences from what had happened.

"Tested" found the profile of seat in Facebook. It states that she studied at the Sumy State Pedagogical University, so it may well work as a nanny.

Using the Pimeyes person recognition service, we also found several pictures of the girl on the website of this university.

Unlike the first video shot by DW journalists themselves, in this case, the Associated Press video was used. FACECHERS from the German media company Contacted With the reporter of this agency Alex Babenko, who interviewed Satake. He assured that he did not shoot the actress, but a real resident of Sum.

Actually, on both videos, if you watch them entirely, and not judge by individual personnel, between two girls there are not so many external similarities.

Thus, Katerina Satak and Daria Zimenko are two different women from different cities of Ukraine, and the statement that these are two roles of one actress is false. The first to distribute it was the pro-Russian Telegram channel "Meow"On April 15 at 15:55 Moscow time, about two hours after the emergence of the DW publication.

Pro -Russian media regularly claim that the reports of Ukrainian and international publications dedicated to the victims of the war among civilians of Ukraine are staged. This narrative has been supported from the very beginning of a full -scale invasion, at least with impact In the hospital in Mariupol in March 2022.

Photo on the cover: social networks

Not true

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