In June 2025, a photograph taken at a meeting of representatives of Russia and Ukraine in Turkey diverged on the network. It is alleged that on the form of one of the Ukrainian delegates there was a strip with the symbols of the Nazi punitive unit. We checked whether this is so.
June 2 in Turkey took place The second round of direct negotiations between Russia and Ukraine, renewed in the spring of 2025. On the same day, in Runet, messages were encouraged that one of the members of the Ukrainian delegation put on a meeting military uniform with Nazi symbols. “In the Rada, they are shocked because of their own Peacemaker with the Chevron SS at a meeting in Istanbul,” the tabloid said Life.ru. Later, the publication was published by the commentary of the radio host Armen Gasparyan, which was presented as a historian. “Two crossed grenades on a black shield, silver grenades are a symbol of the 36th division of the SS Dirlewanger troops. This is a punitive unit that has committed an incredible number of war crimes, ” - told Gasparyan. The host made a similar comment in an interview with the Telegram channel Lomovka (110,000 views at the time of writing this analysis), as well as reposting both publications to his own channel (70 000 And 71 000 views).
Similar posts appeared in other Telegram channels, among which Zergulio (184,000 views), "Lead the front"(43,000),"News.ru | News"(33,000),"Paragraph"(28,000) and others. Special correspondence of the newspaper" Komsomolskaya Pravda "Dmitry Steshin in his channel"Russian Tarantas”(56,000 views) said (spelling and punctuation saved):“ Photos from negotiations and the shield of the Dirlivanger brigade, the pomegranate of the “Kolotushki” M24 even recognizes the idiot. In the modern army, nothing similar is in service. Khokhls will tell that these are the Getman maces, but we know ... "The observer of the publication" Paragraph "Andrei Poreus also wrotethat Chevron with the photo does not apply to any of the current units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and wondered: “Why is this [Nazi] emblem to the Ukrainian officer or official?” Similar publications can be found on the site News.ru, in VKontakte (examples here, here And here) and in X, where one tweet Sicked 126,000 views.
The authors of some posts and notes mentioned at the beginning of the analysis, I referred On the Telegram channel of the Verkhovna Rada deputy Artyom Dmitruk, who He left Ukraine in August 2024. According to the State Bureau of Investigations of Ukraine, he crossed the border illegal, and the department excited A criminal case against him. Soon Dmitruk announced On the international wanted list - he is accused of inflicting bodily harm and other crimes. In recent years, the name of the politician, which is in the press called pro -Russian, was connected with the series scandals: For example, he I arranged Fights, He performed against vaccination, as well as Critical Operation of the Armed Forces in the Kursk region. The deputy himself He called it The affairs of the “absolutely falsified and invented story” opened against him and stated that his Personal "For the state position, political views and protection of the Orthodox faith."
In the Telegram channel Dmitruk Record About the Chevron of the SS appeared on June 2, 2025 at 15:20 Moscow time, scored more than 60,000 views and, apparently, became the first on this topic (at least the earlier posts were not “checked”). The deputy published two images: a picture of the Ukrainian delegate in negotiations in Istanbul and screenshot Pages with the logo of the 36th Volunteer Infantry Division of the SS in Wikipedia. This is a punitive unit, also known as the SS Sonderkom, under the command of Oscar Dirlewanger, was equipped from German prisoners. ““ Peacekeepers ”with the Chevrons of the SS are negotiating,” wrote Dmitruk.
In his post, the politician brought a photograph in a low resolution, and when looking at this frame, really, it may have the impression that two crossed white grenades are shown on the patch. If you find pictures of good quality (for example, from correspondents TASS or AFP), it will become clear: the chevron depicts two maces. Moreover, such an emblem was on the form right away several Man from the Ukrainian delegation.
How Explains The Stopfake Factsing project, chevron with crossed maces on a black background - this is a sleeve sign of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, whose representatives entered the negotiation group from Ukraine. For example, on site The Armed Forces of Ukraine can be seen exactly the same strip on the form of the head of the Ukrainian General Staff, Major General Andrei Gnatov.
In 2023, in an interview with Radio Liberty, historian Alexander Surchenko explainedThat Cossack symbols of power, including maces, are used on modern emblems of Ukrainian military units. “The Cossacks of the Bulav was precisely a symbol, an attribute of the hetman, a koshevoy chieftain. <...> There are also crossed maces on the generals of the general, ”Surchenko said. How He wrote The Ukrainian historian and heraldist Nikolai Chmir, the military of the West Ukrainian People’s Republic used a similar symbol (two crossed yellow maces) back in 1918-1919.
However, the authors of some pro-Kremlin Telegram channels were not embarrassed that there were maces, not grenades on the screening of the Ukrainian. For example, in "The point of the explosion"(15,000 views) with link They wrote to the Ukrainian Center for Combating Disinformation: “They found anti -Krise at the crests. In short, in peace negotiations in Istanbul, one of the negotiators had Chevron on his shoulder, reminiscent of the Chevron of the SS Dirlenger division - the one that distinguished himself with great cruelty against the peaceful ones. The crests are justified, they say, it seemed to you, and this is Chevron of another Ukrainian division. But if you look closely at the Ukrainian logo, then ... is it a lot of difference? This is literally almost the same, just changed elements. Even the color is one. But Nazism is not there, there is only nationalism. They have President a Jew. "
Thus, on the shoulder of a member of the Ukrainian delegation at the negotiations in Istanbul there was no chevron of the SS. In fact, several negotiators in military uniform at once had the emblem of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces. On it, contrary to the reports of Russian media and Telegram channels, not German grenades, but crossed pins are depicted.
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