A video allegedly presenting a new episode of a Ukrainian cartoon is being circulated online. In it, a grandfather tells his grandson that Ukraine is a European country that shares Western values, including open love between two men and the holding of Pride marches. When the grandson says that his grandmother considers LGBT people perverts, the grandfather replies that she has simply been influenced by Russian propaganda. In reality, this cartoon was neither created nor broadcast in Ukraine, and the video in question contains clear signs of falsification. This was reported by VoxCheck.

The video does not indicate on which channel or platform the cartoon was supposedly aired, and there are no mentions of it on Ukrainian television or in online media. The clip was distributed exclusively by Russian sources.

The so-called “cartoon” contains numerous language errors, indicating that it was created by people for whom Ukrainian is not a native language. The cartoon character addresses his grandson as “Tarasko” instead of the natural Ukrainian diminutive “Tarasyk”, and the phrase “absolutely everyone” is incorrectly rendered as “absolutely everything.” These are typical mistakes made by native Russian speakers attempting to imitate Ukrainian.

The cartoon was likely generated using software based on artificial intelligence algorithms, which make it possible to create simple animation quickly and almost free of charge. This is further evidenced by the repetition of frames and the overall artificial appearance of the graphics.

Previously, at least two other episodes of the same “cartoon”, featuring the same characters and plot elements, had already appeared online. At first, propagandists claimed it had allegedly been created by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), and later that it was being broadcast on Ukrainian television channels. Both claims are false: these videos have no connection whatsoever to Ukrainian animators and initially appeared on Russian Telegram channels.