At the end of April 2025, a viral video with the participation of a Russian singer, shot, according to many Internet users, either in the occupied territory of Ukraine or in the Kursk region, became a viral in social networks. We checked the reliability of such posts.
The author of the 45-second video captured the singer Valery and the musician accompanying her surrounded by destroyed buildings. In the video, the artist performs the Soviet song "How does the Homeland begin." “Just Sur - singer Valeria sings a song of war years among the ruins in honor of“ our boys ”, who themselves did these ruins,” - wrote In the social network X blogger Maxim Mirovich (47,000 views at the time of publication of this analysis). “How does the homeland begin? / From bloody traces on Earth, / from houses that burned to the ground already / in the neighboring, not our country, ” - Commented Rolik public figure Alena Popova (28,000 views). “The Valeria Z-singer with a smug grin sang the song“ Where does the homeland begin ”against the background of the ruins of the city destroyed by the Russians,” the publications Telegram channel Nexta Live (203,000 views). Moreover, in some other popular posts (despite comments like "Circus of moral freaks of some kind") It is not claimed that the video was shot in the occupied part of Ukraine or in the Kursk region.
The video was also widely dispersed in the Ukrainian -language segment of social networks. So, in X more than 180,000 views collected publication military personnel and blogger Anatoly Stefan, known under the call sign Stirlitz. “Valeria photographed a significant and bright video of the“ Russian world ”, which is behind it. "Where does the homeland begin?" “From bombed cities,” the tweet says.
Against this background, the Minister of Culture and Strategic Communications of Ukraine Nikolai Tochitsky said that his department would turn to the Security Service of Ukraine with a request to establish exactly where the video was shot, and subsequently open the case of violation of sanctions against Valeria (the singer is prohibited from entering the country due to support for the annexation of Crimea). “This video is a concentrated meaning and ethics of Russian culture today, 50 and even 300 years ago. Everything is sung correctly. It is with this that the "homeland" begins - with the occupation, deportation, the Russian language, two chords on the balalaika and vulgarity, " - noted Tochitsky on his Facebook page.
This video first appeared on Instagram no later than April 26. His Published In Storiz Stanislav Kalinkin, director Producer Center Joseph Prigozhin. April 30, already against the backdrop of a flared scandal, Valeria itself and Prigozhin herself Placed A video on its pages in the same social network. According to the singer, the video shows how she rehearses the song “On the backdrop of the movie” in the Moskino movie park near Troitsky. There, Valeria notes, a recording of the festive release of the television show "Apartizer near Margulis", dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War. The same version of the events of May 3 on the Rain TV channel set out Producer and husband of the artist Joseph Prigozhin.
The location shown in the video contains a number of artifacts that are uncharacteristic for the combat zone. For example, thin tall trees can be noted without visible damage, growing in front of a giant breakdown in a reddish wall in the right side of the frame. It is unlikely that they could survive in the conditions of shootings and artillery blows. The hypothesis that the trees were planted during the improvement of the territory after the end of the battles is also difficult to call a wealthy, because in such circumstances landscaping is far from a priority task. In the foreground in the left side of the frame you can see fresh wooden beams - slightly sprinkled with dust, but whole, not charred and not visited.
In his post, Valeria notes that in the same place where the video of her impromptu rehearsal is recorded, they shot the film "The lists were not listed" - a film adaptation of the story of Boris Vasiliev on the defense of the Brest Fortress. April 27 on the website of the NTV channel appeared plot About how the scenery for this tape were created. There you can see a building with a characteristic V-shaped breaks in a gray wall. The house with exactly the same destruction fell into the video of Valeria.
So there is no reason to doubt that the artist sang against the backdrop of movie de -storage. It remains to understand whether they are really located near Troitsky in New Moscow.
The territory of the Moskino film park, opened in September 2024, has a complex shape and significant scale: from west to east it extends by about 4 km, and from north to south - 2 km. The official paper card indicates many locations, including military topics: Berlin, Reichstag, partisan village - however, there is no Brest fortress among them.
The above -mentioned video from NTV allows you to geoloscope the film set of the film “Not listed in the lists” and, accordingly, a video with the participation of Valeria. The shooting took place at the western edge of the film park, far from the front door, on the field near the SNT "Pakhra" and the village Shahovo. For example, a embankment, probably “playing a role” of funnels from bombs, came to satellite pictures.
Closer to the end of the NTV plot in the frame on the left side, the layout of the Terespol gates of the Brest Fortress is visible, in the center-the bell tower of the church, to the right-mentioned earlier by the V-shaped gap in the wall, in the background-the country houses of SNT "Pakhra".
The layout of the church also fell on the picture, published in February 2025 in the Yandex.zerkala service. In the photo, the car travels from SNT "Pakhra" to the village of Shakhovo, and the decoration is clearly distinguishable on the right side of the frame.
On electronic The cinema park (which is probably a few fresh paper) this set is also absent, but several others are noted next door, the nearest of which is called the “Defense Line. Trenches and strengthening of their own. " 1.5 km southeast of the layout of the Brest Fortress, another field decoration was built, designated on Yandex.Marts as ancient Kyiv. In the reviews of a resident of the nearest village of Gorodok complains (Author's spelling and punctuation are preserved): “There was a quiet, secluded village with a beautiful view of Pakhra. Come to see what they taught. That it was not built on the ruble? Closer to yourself. All day shooting and fingers ... "
Thus, Valeria really performed the song “How the Motherland begins” against the background of the ruins, but it was not a city destroyed by the war, but the scenery depicting the Brest fortress. They were built on the territory of New Moscow for filming the film "The Lists were not listed."
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