“Propaganda”, “Staging”, “Kiev regime” – these are the comments of Internet users for the film, which is to be proof that Ukraine employs actors to create anti -Russian content. Actors-soldiers in the presence of cameras, which can be seen on the recording circulating on the network, are only to pretend to be victims. However, the truth is completely different, and the disinformation method accusing Ukraine of creating propaganda – universal.
There is a recording of several seconds in the network. We see on him that the battlefield somewhere in Ukraine and several soldiers – one kneels and supports the head of a wounded or dead colleague from the ward. Another soldier is sitting next to the fire – he heats his hands, followed by at least one more military. Another one seems to be recording by the phone of colleagues. However, what “disagrees” is people “of civilian clothes with professional film equipment: operators with cameras, an assistant, and maybe also a sounder, someone working with a smoke generator. The whole scene resembles a film set.
Internet users make this film with a specific message: Ukrainian soldiers from the film are actually actors playing scenes from war activities. These would then go to the media and foreign recipients to be evidence of Russian crimes. One of the Polish posts He appeared with this video on March 8 on Tiktoku. The inscription was imposed on the recording: “Come on. And this is how propaganda for blunt rams is made.” Because this “pretended fight” is to be the goal to acquire financial, humanitarian and military assistance from other countries, including Poland. This message fits perfectly into the pro -Napper disinformation, which aims to discourage the West from providing help. The vulgar song “Be careful” of rapper Danielsky was put under the recording.
Internet user entry, which claims that Ukrainians prepare emotional videos intended for foreign recipients and the media are displayed on a thicket of over 76 thousand. times.Thicket
The video was displayed over 76 thousand times, it has over 2,000 likes, and over 1.6 thousand were made available times. Internet users outraged by the alleged staging of fights and in this way to “extort” money from other countries by Ukraine commented: “From the beginning I knew that it was so. Bombarded blocks or hospitals show the same from Donbass only from different sides and shots”; “War is a kit”; “Kiev regime will do everything to get out of money, let them show what cemeteries in UA look like where there are no places for burials of fallen civilians and soldiers”; “This whole war is a fake only to draw money from the whole world and then build hotels and ministries for our money”; “How long will we take on”; “beautifully shown propaganda”; “And what else are we helping !! ???” (Spelling of all entries original).
The message aroused a lot of emotions, but it has no connection with the truth. What we see is not a “propaganda staging”, but the backstage of the music video for a song created by Ukrainian musicians. This is not the first example of the pro -region narrative that Ukrainians allegedly employ actors to send a message about the victims of war into the world. So we explain what exactly can be seen in the video widespread on the network.
The backstage of the music video was used
On the distributed recording you can see the name of the account on which the original video was available. It is no longer available there, but an account of the same name also exists on Instagram. In his description we read that he belongs to the “artist” and “author of texts” to songs. The owner of the account came to one of the published photos with four other men dressed in soldier's uniforms. One of them is Vitsik, or co -creator of the song “Brothers”. What we see on the recording widespread with a false thesis is simply backstage from the creation of the music video for this song.
Already on the creator's Instagram you can watch fragments from the clip, and the entire music video appeared on YouTube on the day of the third anniversary of the Russian full -lock invasion of Ukraine. That's how I write about the song Vitsik and her co -author, Ukrainian artist Misha Scorpio: “This song is about a real brotherhood that is born in a fight. On those who in the war became a family who stand with her in the most difficult moments.” In addition, they inform that “the video was shot with the participation of the Ukrainian army.” In the clip we see the same landscape as on the popularity on the recording of the recording – smoke, burning wood, small hills in the background and lying soldiers. However, the material was not created for propaganda purposes, as Internet users say.
Even before February 24, 2022, vocalists announced that the song and the music video were made. In social media, Vitsik and Misha Scorpion published many remedial recordings. On the Instagram of one of them there were also photos from premieres clip.
The same message in a foreign network
The message about the alleged preparation by Ukrainians of war videos, for which the use of the backstage from filming the music video also appeared in a foreign network. “Ukrainian 'soldiers' resort to a pretended fight to look on' war torn 'so that money from a dirty American fund still flows to them – he' post on X from March 2. In support of his thesis, his author attached another recording on the day of the music video. On him we see a young, dressed in a uniform woman who improves characterization. In the comments, the author of the post attached two other recordings with the same “actress”. On the first of them, the woman's makeup artist puts a black face paint on her lips and beard, and on the second we see her lying on the ground – after a while another soldier runs to her and embraces her.
All videos that was to be proof of the preparation of propaganda materials by Ukraine come from the vocalist Vitsik's thicket.x.com
This post generated over eight million views. As in the case of Polish Internet users, many commentators believed that what they watch was propaganda and indignant activities: “This is happening since the first day. I have not seen any real film after a real war. “It's absurd!”; “Money from our taxes pay for 'special effects'. However, a large group of commentators was not fooled and reported that these fragments were from the music clip. “This is a music video that is being created”; “End with fake news!”; “And the whole music video can be watched on YouTube. Please!” – they wrote.
A woman from the video herself referred to these false accusations. She was Maryana Czeczeliuk, a young Ukrainian woman, a policewoman from Mariupol, who was kidnapped by the Russians in May 2022, then she was 22 years old; She stayed in captivity for over two years. On the same day, which a disinformation post appeared on X, Checheliuk responded to him on his Instagram. “What can I say. At the beginning the suit does not fit, and now we will stag the war … Maybe you will visit us?” – wrote. “The authors of the fake probably expect that such a glaring lie will work on Trump's voters,” the woman added.
All recordings that the English -speaking Internet user originated in the support of his message originally appeared on Vitsik's thicket. The one we see in making makeup, Vitsik published Already after the premiere of the music video, on February 26. “The clip is available at the link in BIO …” – he signed the recording. However, the shot with a woman lying on earth also appeared On the vocalist's thicket, and the same fragment recorded from a different perspective was used for the music video itself in the 1:30 minute of the film.
Therefore, there is no doubt that films disseminated in the Polish and foreign network come from the plan of the music video and do not constitute any evidence for the thesis about the thesis about Ukrainian “crisis actors” pretending to be victims of Russian troops.
The accusations of “crisis actors” are not a new method
Under the film discussed at the beginning of the text, there were also such comments: “Pandemia's replay”; “They have a cavid practice”; “They made a bit like a pandemia”; “For the morons there were videos like hospitals as he was a shock”; “The same circus as with Covid.” This is because the disinformation narrative about substituted actors is not new. Detening the truthfulness of the heroes of various dramatic events was a common method during Covid-19 or the intensity of fighting with climate change. After the outbreak of the full -glass war in Ukraine and during the conflict in the Gaza Strip, it intensified even more. We discussed such examples repeatedly In Concrete24.
For example, Russian misinformation by means of a message about “crisis actors” tried to convince the public that materialwhich appeared in the media around the world after the crime in Bucza in March 2022 are crafted by Ukraine, and the Russian army did not participate in murders.
Another example is the recording crafted by the Russian side, which was to be proof that Russia was not behind a rocket attack on a children's hospital in Kiev from July 2023, a recording was prepared at that time, which was to undermine the credibility of the doctor's doctor, which was loud after the attack. The message with which the recording was made available to argue that the medic is “a crisis actor”. However, as we explained in Concrete24the doctor was a real employee of the institution, and on the recording, which was to undermine his credibility, someone else occurred.
They are also often used old materialsbefore the start of the full -glass invasion, or recording and photos from completely different events – as was the case with the described music video. And all this to discourage the West from giving Ukraine further support.
However, not only proxremist propaganda benefits from spreading the message about “crisis actors”. The motif of alleged actors and staging has been used in disinformation for a long time – it is an old trick of conspiracy theories supporters. And it is eagerly used by the sowers of conspiracy theories and fake news about Covid-19 pandemic and vaccines against this virus. IN Concrete24 we described how they created fake accusations For staging in hospitals – actual patients were, according to them, substituted actors simulating infection, who were to authenticate the alleged “granthemia”.