In August 2025, a video went viral on social networks, allegedly showing how, in a children’s summer camp at a Ukrainian church, a clergyman dances to music calling for the killing of Muscovites. We have verified the accuracy of this entry.
A video of a man in church vestments dancing has been circulating on the RuNet since August 24. Telegram channel «Putin on Telegram”(162,000 views at the time of writing this analysis) described what was happening in the video: “In the children's summer camp at the OCU (Orthodox Church of Ukraine. — Approx. ed.) the priest danced with the children to a song with the text “We wet, we wet, we wet Muscovites.” “The cult of violence and national intolerance continues to be defiantly broadcast to children at official events,” the Telegram channel commented on the video.Operation Z: military correspondents of the Russian spring"(430,000 views). And the channelUkraine.ru”(109,000 views) clarified: “This is today. And in a week, according to tradition, this Nazi song will be played at school assemblies. At least last year included"
According to the TGStat service, in less than 24 hours, almost 600 similar posts appeared on Telegram, with a total of more than 4 million views. Among the channels that talked about the video are “Pozdnyakov 3.0"(309,000 views), "Dmitry Nicotin" (242,000), "Solovyov"(205,000), "KB plus"(181,000), "Uncle Slava" (161,000), "Observer" (142,000), "Sheikh Tamir"(116,000), Voblya (105,000), "Russian Kolobok and green stick"(92,000), "Bloodseeker 2.0"(70,000), Nina Vatt (69,000) and "Tsargrad-TV"(67,000). Similar publications can be found on VKontakte (examples here, here And here), Instagram (here And here), as well as on the websites "Dvach", "Podolyak", "Anti-Maidan"etc.
The viral 27-second video shows two men dancing near the temple (one of them dressed in a black robe) while several children walk nearby (some carrying backpacks and sleeping pads). At the same time, the song “We kill Muscovites" “There are three things that you can look at forever: how the fire burns, how the water flows and how our fathers dance,” reads the Ukrainian-language caption superimposed on the video.
To begin with, “Verified” tried to track the original source of the video being distributed. We found the earliest publication with this video in the pro-Kremlin Telegram channel “Shaman Rahu"(5400 views), where the corresponding post appeared on August 24 at 11:06 Moscow time. On our website this is one of the record holders for the number mentions as a distributor of fakes, some of which are just concerned activities of the OCU. A couple of minutes later the same video was published just as well familiar to our regular readers Telegram channel "South Live"(1400 views), which describes itself as the southern bureau of the Solovyov Live TV channel. That post claims that the video was sent by an anonymous subscriber - this method of “legalization” is often used by the creators of fakes.
None of the publications cited at the beginning of this analysis gives the name of the temple or even the city where the recording was made. Using a reverse search on the “Verified” screenshot, I found out that in the background there is Church of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, located in the city of Stryi, Lviv region. This is an active temple of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC), and not the OCU, as they claim on the Runet. From June 30 to July 4, based on this parish, it is valid worked Christian camp for children 6–13 years old. It is noteworthy that earlier in one of the photo fakes, which was distributed by the above-mentioned Telegram channel “Shaman Rahu”, the Greek Catholic church in Ukraine also issued for Orthodox.
The parish of the Stryi church has its own page on TikTok. “Verified” studied it and found it video clip with a video sequence that completely repeats the footage from the viral recording. It was published back on July 2, 2025 and received almost 705,000 views. However, unlike the version actively distributed in the Russian-language segment of Telegram, on TikTok the video lasts 44 seconds and does not feature the Ukrainian-language song “Mochim Moskaliv”, but one of the versions of the English-language song Witch Doctor.
“Verified” has more than once dealt with similar false reports based on genuine videos with an altered audio track. For example, in November 2023, viral steel posts that in one of the OCU churches they celebrated Halloween and sang about Satan. In fact, the video was filmed in a Greek Catholic church and the original song was “How good it is in your temple, Mother of God.” Additionally, as mentioned at the beginning of this discussion, September 1, 2023 is indeed got infected a video from a school assembly in Ukraine, which also supposedly featured the song “We’re Wetting the Moskaliv,” although in reality the children were listening to a composition called “School Song.” Then “Shaman Rahu” was one of the first to publish a fake. Moreover, the edited video from the Day of Knowledge, as in the case of the video about the dancing priest, lasted 27 seconds. and almost the same audio track was superimposed on it. “Shaman Rahu” later posted similar fakes, for example recording funeral of a Ukrainian Armed Forces soldier to music from McDonald's advertising and rollers from a disco in a Ukrainian church, converted into a nightclub.
Thus, the video in which the OCU priest dances with children to the song “Mochim Moskaliv” is a fake. This video depicts a clergyman not of the Orthodox, but of the Greek Catholic Ukrainian Church, and the original recording featured a completely different composition.
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