On 2 April, a photograph of Ukrainian propaganda poster and flyers calling for cultural cleansing appeared on 1 of Telegram's Procremlovian channels. In fact, photographs were distributed by Russian propagandaists and rapidly gained large popularity among the Polish far right, including the Confederation of Polish Crown Grzegorz Braun. The article describes their first source.
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Source: TelegramThese flyers and posters straight call for cultural cleansing. We will find on them:
Pure blood is simply a healthy nation. If you hatred Russians, Belarusians, Tartarts, Gypsies, Poles and another crap – join us. It's harvest time!
The materials were to include ‘important dates’, including: Adolf Hitler's birth date (20.04.1889), the date of the creation of the Ukrainian Insurgency Army (14.10.1942), the date of arson of the Trade Union home during the riots in Odessa (02.05.2014) and the day of the detonation on the Crimean bridge (08.10.2022).
Source of photos of Ukrainian poster
Photographs for the first time (31 March) he published on his Telegram channel Evgeniy Poddubny, who covered them with a commentary in Russian. The following content is translated into Polish:
You can see further confirmation of the request for a peculiar military operation. These are reportedly pamphlets with dates of Ukrainian neo-Nazi “works” distributed in the Ivano-Franki region.
Source: TelegramSubdued is Russian propaganda, war correspondent, cooperating with Russia-24 and with Russia-1. In March 2022 he began report events of war in Ukraine. In his materials, he calls the war a "special operation", he speaks of the necessity to denazify Ukraine and denies the war crimes committed by the Russian Federation's troops. Due to propaganda activities and the dissemination of misinformation by Poddubny in May 2022 the United Kingdom imposed it sanctions. He was banned from entering the United Kingdom and his assets were frozen. akin sanctions applied besides Canada, Australia and Ukraine.
2 April 2023 photos There's been on the Twitter account halt Ukrainianization of Poland, which is anti-Ukrainian representation Confederation of the Crown of Poland.
Source: TwitterInterestingly, 1 of the photographs shows a signature indicating the individual sharing the photo: Asher Burov-Şǔraeva.
Source: TwitterAsher Burov-Şǔraev is simply a Lublin-based prokremlian social media activist. He is now likely in Israel, where he is doing his media activity. On his profiles on Facebook is TikToku We will find prokreml and anti-Ukrainian content.
What is peculiarly important, these photographs do not appear in any another context, do not appear in any another reports, and we will not find their sources depicting the alleged Ukrainian poster and leaflets (other than the ones discussed here).
Summary
The origin of photos of the alleged poster and flyers are people closely associated with the Kremlin, known for their propaganda activity and spreading disinformation. The deficiency of another sources and references indicates the forgery of distributed leaflets and posters.
Sources
Detector Media: https://detector.media/infospace/article/201012/2022-07-15-sbu-ogolosyla-pro-pidozru-propagandystu-vdtrk-piddubnomu/
War & Sanctions: https://sanctions.nazk.gov.ua/en/sanction-person/8992/
The Telegraph: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/05/04/britain-sanctions-Russian-war-correspondents-crack-propaganda/
