At the end of July 2025, a photograph diverged in social networks, in which the mother of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces was allegedly captured for raising his son. Next to her is a smiling man who raised his thumb. We checked the reliability of this picture.
On August 2, the viral photo posted in his Telegram channel Colonelcassad Blogger Boris Rozhin (152,000 views at the time of writing this analysis). “In the Chernihiv City Council of the mother of the deceased Ukrainian soldier, they gave a letter" for raising a hero. " The letter says: "We bring our condolences." The official, however, is not visible condolences - he smiles and shows a big finger enough. We understand him positively - he will not send him to the front. Unlike the son of a grief of his mother, ”the post said. An increased fragment of the picture, which showed a letter, was also attached to it.
According to the TGSTAT service, by the time of writing this analysis, more than 70 similar posts appeared in Telegram, which in total gained about 500,000 views. Among the posting photos - channels "Ukraine.ru"(128,000 views),"In fact in Kharkov"(78 000),"Own correspondent"(46,000),"Ramzai"(31 000),"In fact in Zaporozhye"(19,000) and other publications on a viral picture are also found in"VKontakte"And on news sites, among which"Ukraine.ru" Pressa24 And "ZOV Chernigov".
On a fragment of a viral photo, you can consider the name of a rewarded woman - her supposedly name is Elena Valentinovna Tarasenko. “For the upbringing of the hero (posthumously). We bring our condolences due to severe loss, ”the text reads on literacy. The date of the alleged award is also indicated there - July 28, 2025. The name of the man captured in the picture, or at least his position in the Chernihiv city council is not specified.
“Verified” could not find any information about Elena Tarasenko in the Ukrainian media and other open sources, who lost her son in the war. We could also not establish what kind of man is depicted in the photo. There is no person with such an appearance in List deputies of the Chernihiv City Council, and on site and in social networks This body does not have news about the delivery of such a letter.
If the extended picture is not on the official resources of the Chernihiv City Council, then where did it come from in Runet? Most of these publications in the photo noticeable Tastmark of the Prochremile Telegram channel "In fact in Kharkov", Where the corresponding post appeared on July 30 at 21:32 Moscow time. However, it was “verified” that the source was different. The earliest record with the viral photo that we managed to track was released a few hours earlier, at 16:26, in the Telegram channel "Urgent and accurately"(2000 views). This channel was already repeatedly Strengthened in the publication of fakes (one Of these, it was just concerned for fake letters), and sometimes He became their primary source.
With a careful examination of the photo, you can notice several strange details. For example, the tips of the woman’s fingers seem deformed, the stems of some flowers - purple, and the pattern on the tablecloth - uneven and asymmetric. In addition, the location of the text and the coat of arms is literate in full version of the photo and is different on its fragment.
This can be seen especially well when imposing images on top of each other.
The artifacts described above may indicate that the basis of the photograph was generated by a neural network, and then the image was additionally processed in the photo editor. “Verified” analyzed a picture in six II detectors, but the results were contradictory. The services used appreciated the likelihood that the photo was created using AI as high in half of cases. In our analysis, we have repeatedly indicated that checks in such detectors can only serve as an additional argument, since these services sometimes Give Both false positive and false negative results.
Journalists of the Agency "Ukrinform" Turned For a comment to the press service of the Chernihiv City Council. They stated that a photograph distributed in Runet, as well as a letter captured on it, fakes. “The photo sent is a letter of not the Chernihiv city council,” reporters told reporters. The press service also noted that the Chernihiv City Council and the Executive Committee are presenting with honorary diplomas, the design of which approved A separate act and is very different from the award from the distributed picture.
At the same time, a letter of letter with decoration elements as in a viral photo can be found on the profile sites.
Thus, the distributed photograph, which captures the mother of the deceased Ukrainian soldier and the smiling Chernihiv official, supposedly handing the woman a letter for raising her son, is Fake. Most likely, this picture was generated with the help of a neural network, and later a fake letter was added to it.
Photo on the cover: social networks
- Is it true that the deputy of the Verkhovna Rada wrote a letter to the mother of the deceased soldier using Chatgpt?
- Is it true that in the Kharkov region they awarded wives who "handed over" husbands to the military commissariat?
- Is it true that the photo shows portraits of Zelensky and Biden in the office of the school principal in Zaporozhye?
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