On March 15 on the Ukrainian portal OLX appeared announcement about the sale of Mercedes Sprinter 906. The colour of the car clearly indicates that it previously served as an ambulance. There were suggestions that the ambulance came from a pool of 25 vehicles. transferred in July 2022 as support for Ukraine. The article explains that the car has nothing to do with charity for the Ukrainians.
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More about our evaluation system:Ambulance on OLX as disinformation
Information in a False Context distributed Katarzyna Sokołowska, president of the Volyn Foundation We remember. Her tweet was screened over 50,000 times. Disinformation was besides spread by the pro-Russian propaganda on Twitter accounts Coolfonpl and quoante. The first occurrence of this information was found in Paul Hess' account on Facebook.
In the announcement on the Ukrainian portal OLX the author added annotation in Ukrainian:
ДЛЯ ОСОБЛИВО ОБДАРОВНИХ ГРОМАДЯН УКРАЇНИ ШАНОВНІ, ЦЕ НЕ, ЦЕЙ АВТОМБІЛЬ КУПЛЕНИЙ ЗА ВЛАСНИЙ КОШТ НА НА В В В В В В. Не подарований не переданий не наданий наданий саме КУПЛЕНИЙ ЗА ГРОШІ!
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TO SPECIALLY BEAUTIFUL CITIZENS OF UKRAINE AND POLISH.Guys, it's not a humanitarian gift, this car was bought for my own money at the auction in Poland.Not presented, not handed over, not given, but precisely bought for money!
Mercedes Sprinter is sold in the announcement, while ambulances delivered in 2022 by Poland are Renault Master. There are 2 crucial details in 1 of the pictures in the ad. The first is the registration number, and the second is part of the transport service sign.
Source: OLXAfter entering the number in the search engine in the first place we see a link to the archive announcements about the public tender of the Emergency Ambulance in Wrocław from January 2021. With this peculiar car you can see annotation that it was sold as damaged as a consequence of an accident.
Source: BIP Emergency Services in WrocławMaciej Welyczko from the editorial board Wroclawskiportal.pl obtained Response from the Emergency Service in Wrocław on the auction. The emergency manager confirms that this peculiar ambulance has been sold to a private company. As we read further in article:
A damaged ambulance was purchased by a private Polish entrepreneur from Bolesławec who has been dealing, legally and for a long time, with utilized cars and repairing them.
We got to him. The ambulance he acquired had insignificant damage, a broken headlight. She found another buyer, besides a Pole – a private individual from Wielkopolska.
– It was absolutely not sold to any public institution or local government – provided the entrepreneur from Bolesławca. He besides adds that they do not have specified customers at all.
Source: Wrocław Emergency ServicesLocation of place of sale
One of the pictures in the announcement besides shows a fragment of the sign “Transport services”, which may indicate that photographs of the car were taken in Poland. Meanwhile, the author of the announcement ensures that the car is found on the street Butlerov Academy 4 in Kiev. We typed this one. address in Google Maps and indeed the fragments of the building shown in the photograph from the announcement clearly indicate the object in this location.
Source: OLX/Google MapsA portal besides wrote about the case FakeHunter.
Summary
An ambulance sold on the Ukrainian portal OLX does not come from charity activities. The ambulance was sold as part of a public tender by the Wrocław Emergency Services in 2021. The car then passed between private owners and yet found itself in Ukraine. Confirming the current location of the car shows that the sale is not a provocation. The seemingly trivial announcement of the utilized car was thus utilized as disinformation by anti-Ukrainian propaganda and pro-Russian trolls.
Sources
Wrocław Facts: https://www.wroclawskiportal.pl/on-tropy-anti-Ukrainian-fake-news-no-ta-carrier-no-is-dar-wroclaw/
FakeHunter: https://fakehunter.pap.pl/report/019a30b7-67e5-4768-95cb-aef41c228cc1
