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Russian propaganda is not the first to spread fakes about Yevhen Konovalets.
The Center for Countering Disinformation reported a new wave of Russian fakes on social networks aimed at discrediting the Ukrainian authorities’ decisions regarding the National Pantheon of prominent Ukrainians. In particular, false claims are being circulated that there is a sale of “land from a grave” of Yevhen Konovalets, one of the figures of the Ukrainian national liberation movement, according to the CCD in its Telegram channel.
In posts, photos are shown of transparent bags with soil, bearing a relevant inscription and a price tag of 6000 hryvnias. The Center emphasized that this information is false.
“The image has nothing to do with reality; it was generated with artificial intelligence, which is confirmed by checks with specialized media analysis services. The original source of the photo is one of the Russian anonymous Telegram channels,” the statement reads.
It is noted that Russian propaganda has long spread false information about Konovalets. Earlier hostile resources circulated a fake announcement of an exhibition in Lviv, where allegedly a “fragment of Konovalets’s relics” would be shown.
Recall that Yevhen Konovalets, colonel of the Army of the Ukrainian People's Republic and the first head of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, was reburied at the National Military Cemetery near Kyiv. 88 years ago a Russian agent killed him in Rotterdam. Specifically, the reburial ceremony took place on 18 August with the participation of President Volodymyr Zelensky, Prime Minister Serhiy Koriukov, Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada Ruslan Stefanchuk, and several cabinet ministers.
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