In early June 2025, a video about the elite Dubai real estate, which is claimed, acquired the President of Ukraine, spread over the network. We checked the veracity of this information.
According to the virus video, which allegedly released the Al Arabiya TV channel, Rimma Zelenskaya, the mother of the Ukrainian president Vladimir Zelensky, found an apartment in the highest building of the world-the Burj-Khalifa skyscraper in Dubai. With reference to the data from the local real estate register, it is reported that the apartments were issued on Zelenskaya on September 16, 2024, on its birthday, and cost 11.8 million dirhams ($ 3.2 million). The apartment is supposedly located on the 11th floor of the skyscraper, and its interior was developed by the Italian designer Georgio Armani. It is noted that Zelenskaya is a pensioner officially living in Krivoy Rog. In addition to the video with the Al Arabiya logo, some media refer to articles in Arabic -speaking publications Alchourouk And Veto On the same topic.
The family of Zelensky wrote about the elite Dubai real estate Lenta.ru, "Arguments and facts","Moscow Komsomolets","Gazeta.ru" Eadaily and other Russian media, as well as Telegram channels "Live broadcast"(765,000 views at the time of writing this analysis),"Sanya in Florida"(512 000),"Tsargrad-TV"(192 000),"Uncle Glory"(191 000) and"Mordor's voice"(163,000).
Al Arabiya - influential Arab news television channel, belonging Saudi royal family. For a long time he broadcast from Dubai, but several years ago he moved to Riyadh. In addition to official site, the Arabic -language version of the channel has accounts in Facebook, X, Instagram, Telegram, on YouTube and other platforms. However, in none of these accounts, “verified” did not find a report of June 4, similar to a viral video about Zelensky’s mother. Moreover, no other authoritative Arab or Western media disseminated information about the apartment in Dubai, allegedly bought by the family of the Ukrainian president.
A lasting for a minute, the video begins with the fact that the presenter in the frame reads the news in Arabic. Pimeyes recognizes the person to recognize it as Sohaba Sharair - Algerian journalist Al Arabiya. If you familiarize yourself with the videos and photos on his personal page in Instagram, you can notice a certain difference between them and the verified video both in the facial expressions of the host (in particular, the position of the lips and teeth), and in pronunciation. For example, the second vowel in the Arabic word “RAS” (“president”) Sarair on real video He pronounces briefly, and stretches on the viral-“RAI-I-S”. Articulation at this moment is also completely different. These differences suggest that a fragment of a viral video with the participation of a journalist could be generated with the help of neural networks.
"Verified" analyzed the audio track from the video using the service Deepfake-O-Meteran employee for recognition of AI-Contain. The results of the analysis showed that audio was highly likely generated by neural network.
Further, the video shows the screenshot of the contract of sale, allegedly concluded between Rimma Zelenskaya and Emar Properties. It is quite easy to fake it - there is enough samples Such documents, there are even examples with the same sales company.
At the same time, the number of the EMAAR Properties license in the screenshot from the viral video is the wrong one. License No. 543667 issued EMAAR Development - unit of the same company that is engaged in the construction of residential and commercial real estate. In turn, EMAAR Properties It works under a license No. 500353, as on a sample on the right.
The authenticity of the contract shown in the video has refuted and influential Emirate Real Estate Agent Rami Vakhud. In the comments to one of publications With the viral video on Instagram, he said that he personally sold the apartment mentioned in the document, and the report was 100% fake.
Like some Russian media, the creators of the video imposed on the plot of Al Arabiya, publication In Alchourouk. The article, published on June 2, is quite short, it does not even have a screenshot of the contract from the video and any other evidence or links to specific sources. The publication of Alchourouk is Tunisian, which in itself raises questions in the context of the investigation about a relative of the Ukrainian president and real estate in the UAE. Moreover, the account indicated on the website of this media in Facebook Currently not available, and page in X And completely blocked for violation of the rules of the platform.
The second edition referred to in viral posts - Veto. It is also not Emirate, Arabian or Ukrainian, but Egyptian. At Veto, an article about Zelenskaya and apartments in Dubai appeared on the same day as on Alchourouk, and literally coincides with that publication. It is noteworthy that earlier on the same address It was completely different note - She appeared at the end of 2022 and was dedicated to gold prices. The numbers in the addresses of articles are the page number on the site in a chronological order, and in June 2025, more and more new publications contained a seven-digit number in the address, starting already by 542. Apparently, someone edited the old article about gold, replacing all its content with the news about the real estate of the Zelensky family in the UAE.
The earliest discovered “verified” publication containing a viral video is tweet user X with nickname Johnny Midnight (@its_the_dr). He went out on June 4 at 20:02 Moscow time and at the time of writing this parsing recruited 1.2 million views. At the same time, English -speaking, as well as English subtitles, was added in the video on top of the Arabular audio road. In a commentary on the original tweet @its_the_dr referred to Elnabaa.net - note This Egyptian publication is identical to the articles in Alchourouk and Veto. This user X already Facing In the analysis of “verified” as the source of false information about purchases allegedly made by Vladimir Zelensky.
The next day news Picked up Prochremple Telegram channels, in many posts, Russian people added over English subtitles, but the English-speaking voice acting remained. According to the user Gnida ProjectExploring the Russian misinformation campaigns, the sunsid text in the video could read Mark Douglas Dugan - a former American policeman living in the Russian Federation, whom Suspect In cooperation with the GRU and the creation of many sites for the spread of fakes. Indeed, the voice behind the scenes looks like Duganovsky.
Thus, the report of Al Arabiya about the apartment in Dubai, which was supposedly acquired by the Vladimir Zelensky family, was falsified - including using the technology of AI. The main evidence was the forged contract of sale and screenshots of the little-known Tunisian and Egyptian media, in whose publications it is not said, where it became known about the deal. Moreover, the information is not confirmed by authoritative sources.
After the start of a full -scale war in Ukraine, reports about the expensive purchases of Zelensky, his closest relatives and their companies with enviable constancy appear on pro -Komorlev resources. "Verified" has already disassembled such publications about transactions with British Britain, villas in the USA, Egypt And On the Caribbean, Bank in France, Wine in Italy, hotel in Courchevel, mining company in South Africa etc. According to some of these news, the Ukrainian president has a special weakness for the legacy of the Third Reich - he allegedly acquired Goebbels estate, and also Mountain house And Hitler's car. All this news turned out to be fakes, and the handwriting of their creators in many cases was the same: supposedly exposing photos, audio or video materials were “legalized” under the guise of reports of foreign television channels or articles published in publications of third world countries.
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