In May 2025, the network cost the Ukrainian -language animated video in which the grandfather explains to the grandson: Kyiv will not lose anything, concluding an agreement on minerals with Washington. We checked whether this video really prepared this video by order of the Ukrainian authorities.
The heroes of the cartoon are a boy and his grandfather. Such a dialogue occurs between them:
- Grandpa, why is grandmother say that our country was sold to America and now we are slaves?
“Don't believe her, Tarasik!” Ukraine is a very rich country. We have many minerals, there are factories, fertile land, nuclear power plants, a pipe through which the gas passes through our entire country from east to west and brings us a lot of money. We are very rich, they are not. Therefore, we want to share with them. Let them use our wealth! And tell your grandmother not to listen to the Muscovites who want to take everything away from us. And if she says so again ...
“And if she says so again, (both in chorus) needs to be reported to the SBU!”
The characters are obviously discussing the signed on April 30, 2025 agreementBy which Washington gained access to some Ukrainian natural resources. In society, the deal was perceived ambiguously - for example, deputy Anna Skorokhod during Stream On May 20, she stated that it was more important for her to visit the fighters at the front, and not to take the country's interests on voting to ratify the contract in the Verkhovna Rada. And she mentioned the same cartoon that she called the masterpiece of idiocy and manipulation of people. The broadcast of a conversation in Russian gained 112,000 views.
Video was distributed by users "Picabu"(167,000 views at the time of writing this analysis), as well as many Telegram channels-in particular," "Ukraine.ru"(207 000),"Oleg Tsarev"(103,000),"Tsargrad-TV"(81 000),"NEARTOVICH"(40,000) and Rogandar News (36,000).
Judging by the format of the video, it is assumed that it was prepared and distributed precisely by the SBU. Indeed, the department from time to time holds information campaigns calling citizens to assist. So, in January 2025, the SBU, together with the National Police of Ukraine, launched the initiative "The FSBSHNIA was sleeping", In the framework of which the departments called for young people to talk about attempts to recruit by Russian special services and thereby prevent arson, sabotage and terrorist attacks. The campaign was accompanied by the publication of campaigning video in All social networks SBU, as well as on its website.
However, “verified” did not find a cartoon about the boy, his grandfather and a deal with the United States either on the resources of the special services, or in other authoritative Ukrainian sources. The differences with other videos of the department are noticeable: the genre (cartoon instead of real video), an artistic plot that is not found in other videos to take relatives to the SBU for seditious statements. In addition, campaign videos from the SBU, as a rule, ends with the scribble with the logo departments or frame With his contacts. The same cartoon does not contain either one or the other. The grandfather of the little hero talks about the big money that the transit of gas from Russia to Europe through Ukraine brings. However, on January 1, 2025, he Stopped After the contract between Gazprom and Naftogaz, to resume it in any form Kyiv, judging by the statements of officials, Doesn't plan. Therefore, the statement of the grandfather and the demonstrated circuit of pipelines at the time of the cartoon release have been irrelevant for several months.
Voices in the cartoon sound unnatural. "Verified" analyzed his audio traffic using a service to identify AI-Contain Deepfake-O-Meter, which was developed by researchers from the University of Buffalo. The results of the analysis show that the voices of characters with a high probability are generated by a neural network. In addition, in the cartoon grandfather turns to the grandson of Tarasko, although it would be correct to use the form "Tarasik".
Animation itself, apparently, was also created using AI. There are similar ones on the network Personnelwho were definitely generated and could serve as a prototype for the heroes of the video.
Not without the Blacks characteristic of such videos. So, on the map, instead of the Ukrainian -language name of Belarus (“Bilorus”), “Biloruska” was written. And on the left hand of the grandmother, who is shown closer to the end of the video, six fingers are visible at once.
Much more than real video SBU, the video resembles distributed In March 2025, an agitation cartoon allegedly released by a special service. In it, Ukrainian children are called upon to convey to people listening to Russian -speaking songs, even to relatives. That cartoon turned out to be a fake launched through the pro-Kremlin Telegram channels.
According to the TGSTAT service, the animation video about the deal with the United States first appeared in the Russian -speaking segment of Telegram. The earliest publication that contains this video and which was discovered “verified” appeared in the pro -Russian channel Salo yronili May 16 at 08:29 Moscow time.
Thus, the viral video preserved for the campaign video of the Ukrainian authorities is a fake created using AI.
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