In the spring of 2025, a video circulated in the Russian-language segment of the Internet in which, allegedly, a girl who participated in pro-European rallies more than ten years ago spoke with regret about current life in Ukraine. We have verified the veracity of such publications.

The video consists of two videos glued together. The first, judging by the description, shows a report from Euromaidan in Lviv, filmed in November 2013. One of his heroines is a girl jumping in the crowd with the words “He who does not jump is a Muscovite.” The second video allegedly shows the same woman in November 2024, with the grave of a Ukrainian soldier in the background, saying that she has buried many loved ones over the past year. “We got to the point, it turns out,” reads one of the subtitles.

At the end of March 2025, this video was published on Instagram by the user “Tip of the iceberg"(45,000 likes at the time of writing this analysis), and in mid-May it was shared by Telegram channels "KB+"(261,000 views), "Bloodseeker 2.0"(80,000), "Tough of the day"(67,000), "Sledgehammer 18+" (54,000) and "Romanov Light"(38,000).

Events of November 2013 - February 2014 entered into the history of Ukraine as the Revolution of Dignity, or Euromaidan. Mass protests began throughout the country after the authorities announced the suspension of the course towards European integration. Protest movement didn't go unnoticed Lviv is also the political and cultural center of Western Ukraine, traditionally oriented towards rapprochement with Europe.

The credits for the first video indicate that it was filmed in this city. On November 26, 2013, Timur Olevsky, a correspondent for the Dozhd TV channel, attended the rally in Lviv.

On that moment, when the reporter brings the microphone to a girl who looks to be about 20–25 years old, jumping along with the crowd, she shouts the popular slogan of those days, “He who doesn’t jump is a Muscovite,” and turns away, laughing.

The second video can be found on the website of the Euronews TV channel, whose logo is visible in the upper right corner. Reportage, from which this fragment was taken, contrary to viral publications, was released not in November 2024, but on April 24, 2023. Video also posted on the Associated Press YouTube channel.

As follows from the description, the plot was filmed in Krivoy Rog, where, according to Orthodox tradition, on the first Sunday after Easter, people came to the local cemetery to remember their loved ones. The correspondent managed to conduct a short interview with a girl named Tatyana Platina. She sadly says that on this day they usually remembered grandparents who had already lived their lives, and now also friends and acquaintances killed over the past year at the front. Judging by the inscription on the grave cross, Platinum is at this moment at the grave of an Ukrainian Armed Forces fighter Grigory Lysy, who died at the end of the summer of 2022 in the Kharkov region.

Could the girls from two reports be the same woman? This statement could be strictly proven or disproved using facial recognition services like PimEyes or comparing individuals (e.g. FaceShape). However, in the plot of “Rain” the girl is not depicted statically, and given the poor quality of the video, it was not possible to take a screenshot suitable for analysis.

Nevertheless, there are several direct and indirect arguments against the statement that has spread on social networks.

Firstly, the two girls are not similar in appearance - in the oval of the face, the shape of the nose, eyebrows, lips, cheeks, the set of the eyes, the location of the parting, and their build. Although almost ten years passed between the two shootings, such differences cannot be attributed to age-related changes. Moreover, in 2023, the girl from the video from the rally would most likely look a little older than Platinum.

Geography also does not favor the theory that the heroines of the two videos are the same person. The distance from Krivoy Rog to Lviv is more than 800 km.

Finally, both videos have already been distributed in pro-Russian Media And blogs in June 2024, only then they were mounted one after another, and not one on top of the other. The description did not say that this was the same girl, the emphasis was only on the fact that “the Ukrainians got the jump.” The heroines of the two videos began to be identified only in 2025, after the video was re-edited and published on the “Tip of the Iceberg” blog on Instagram.

Thus, although it is not possible to strictly prove this, there is no serious reason to claim that the girl from the video filmed at a rally in Lviv in 2013 became the heroine of a report from a cemetery in Krivoy Rog almost ten years later. This is evidenced both by the appearance of the two Ukrainian women and by indirect arguments.

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