In July 2025, a photograph of a letter dispersed over the network, which the Ukrainian parliamentarian allegedly sent the mother of a soldier who was killed at the front. At the end of the text, a phrase was preserved, typical of the text that wrote a neural network. We checked whether this photograph is true.

A picture of a letter allegedly written by Ukrainian deputy Igor Kopytin began to spread to Telegram on July 25. Channel "Ukraine.ru”(114,000 views at the time of writing this analysis) commented on the photo as follows:“ In Nikolaev, a scandal erupted: a deputy from the “servant of the people” Igor Kopytin sent the mother of the deceased soldier an official condolences, but forgot to delete the attribution from ChatGPT. Moreover, the request to the neural network itself was compiled in Russian! Apparently, without the help of artificial intelligence, the "servants of the people" do not even know how to condole. " Political scientist Alexander Semchenko In his channel (70,000 views) he added: ““ If you need to squeeze more tears, write to me right away. ” In Ukrainian channels, they insist that the deputy prepared the text of the letter with the help of AI. And I think that Kopytin invited a woman to send another son or husband to the woman in such an original way. Then the tears will really become more. Please note that the most important deputy wrote in Russian so that the mother of the deceased understood for sure. ” With similar comments photo Dozens of Telegram channels published-their posts, according to the TGSTAT service, scored about 650,000 views in total. The picture also spread to Facebook, Instagram And "VKontakte", Some were shared by some Online publications and users forums.

According to some Telegram channels, the incident caused a scandal in Nikolaev-in this city located the constituency from which the Rada went to the Verkhovna Igor Kopytin. Nevertheless, “verified” did not find the references to this “scandal” in the city public in social networks, nor in local Media. The reverse search in the image showed that the photograph of the letter diverged mainly in the Russian -speaking segment of the network, and in the Ukrainian news field is practically not found.

“Verified” also failed to confirm statements made by several Russian publications: “The opposition requires explanations from Kopytin and the Party of the Servant of the People. The deputy himself has not yet commented on the situation, and in his environment the incident is called a technical error. ” Search in Google did not find a single comment on the “technical error” made by assistants or representatives of the Kopytin team.

Another suspicious detail is the signature of the deputy at the bottom of the letter. As “verified”, it was copied from another documentwho got into the network in May 2025. Then the media They accused Kopytin in the use of his official position to promote the interests of a friend-businessman, who, stated, also traded with Russian enterprises. As proof, journalists published a document with the very signature of the official. Comparing two photos, you can see that autographs are almost identical.

In addition, it is unlikely that the text, allegedly accidentally falling into an official letter, was written by AI. “Verified” asked Chatgpt to evaluate the phrase “The text is written in the correct Ukrainian language, very warm and emotionally - with an emphasis on heroism. If you need to squeeze even more tears - write to me at once 😉 ”. The Chat Bottom replied: “The wording of“ squeeze even more tears ”and the winking emoji look unethical, cynical and inappropriate, especially in this context.” In response to the clarifying question, the neural network explained: “Even when requesting in the style of“ make the most piercing letter ”, II would not add an ironic assessment with Emoji. ChatGPT is deliberately trained to avoid disrespectful, manipulative and unethical formulations in the context of death, war, grief and tragedies. Emoji like 😉 In the context of the letter of the mother of the deceased soldier are excluded. ”

On July 28, Kopytin himself commented on a viral photograph. “Neither surname, nor title, nor compliance with the norms of the business Ukrainian language. Well, it is not necessary to be an aspin to see that my signature is just copied from some document found on the network, ”- wrote He is on his Facebook page.

Fast Kopytina on Facebook, translated into Russian

The earliest publication containing a photo of the letter and found “verified” appeared in the Telegram channel “Nonal news»July 25, 2025 at 11:11 Moscow time. This channel in July 2025 twice Facing In ours parsing Like the source Fakes about Ukraine, and over the past year "tested" seven times Cauced it is in the spread of misinformation.

Thus, a viral photograph of a letter that Ukrainian deputy Igor Kopitin allegedly sent the mother of a deceased soldier - Fake. And although the text of the letter itself could theoretically be generated by a neural network, a fake is given by Kopytin’s signature, an Emoji comment that is atypical for a chatbot and the absence of any mention of this incident in Ukrainian publics.

Photo on the cover: Telegram